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Story of western state with arable land (8)

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I believe the answer is:

waverley

'story' is the definition.
(I know that Waverley is a debut novel)

'western state with arable land' is the wordplay.
'western' becomes 'w'.
'state' becomes 'aver' (both can mean to declare).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'arable land' becomes 'ley' (ley can mean a piece of land for farming).
'w'+'aver'+'ley'='WAVERLEY'

'of' is the link.

(Another definition for waverley that I've seen is " Novel (series) by Sir Walter Scott".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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