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Typically American tree and herb centre

Ross

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elmer

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'typically american' is the definition.
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'tree and herb centre' is the wordplay.
'tree' becomes 'elm' (elm tree is a kind of tree).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'centre' means to look at the middle letters.
The central letters of 'herb' are 'er'.
'elm'+'er'='ELMER'

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(Other definitions for elmer that I've seen before include "name" , "Man" , "- - Gantry (book, film)" , "____ Rice, US dramatist" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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