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The Emerald Isle? (9)

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'the emerald isle?' is the definition.
'Greenland' can be an answer for 'isle?' (Greenland is an example). I'm not sure about the 'the emerald' bit.

'emerald isle?' is the wordplay.
'emerald' becomes 'green' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'isle?' becomes 'land' (isle is a kind of land).
'green'+'land'='GREENLAND'

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(Other definitions for greenland that I've seen before include "Island with local name Kalaallit Nunaat" , "Island mostly north of the Arctic circle" , "Danish self-governing island, the world's largest" , "5 island north of 13" , "Englander in island owned by Denmark" .)

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