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Tricky Pisa road race, covering a lot of ground (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

diaspora

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'race covering a lot of ground' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'tricky pisa road' is the wordplay.
'tricky' indicates anagramming the letters.
'pisa'+'road'='pisaroad'
'pisaroad' anagrammed gives 'DIASPORA'.

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(Other definitions for diaspora that I've seen before include "Great dispersion of people, Jews or Irish" , "race round the world" , "The dispersion of Jews throughout the world" , "people's movement" , "The scattering of a nation's people" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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