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Trees covered by traditional Christmas decoration? Lots of stars here! (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hollywood

'lots of stars here' is the definition.

'trees covered by traditional christmas decoration?' is the wordplay.
'trees' becomes 'wood'.
'covered by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (on top of in a down clue).
'traditional christmas decoration?' becomes 'holly'.
'wood' after 'holly' is 'HOLLYWOOD'.

(Other definitions for hollywood that I've seen before include "Where Frankie goes" , "Tinseltown" , "in LA?" , "Cinematically brash and romantic" , "California suburb" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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