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State staff will be found in rural recreational facility (7,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

country club

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'recreational facility' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'state staff will be found in rural' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'state' could be 'country' (synonyms) and 'country' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'club' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for country club that I've seen before include "Rural sports and meeting place" , "Rural sport and leisure establishment" , "Social and sporting facility" , "provides rural recreation" , "Rural sports and social amenity" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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