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Country area where a cart broke down at a road junction (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tract

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'country area where a' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'cart broke down at a road junction' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'cart' is 'trac' which is present in the answer.
'junction' could be 't' and 't' is found within the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for tract that I've seen before include "Large area; pamphlet" , "Publication" , "Large area; treatise" , "lot of ground?" , "Extensive area of land" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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