The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SWEDEN
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result SWEDEN
- Country vegetable, never ever thrown away
- Small study about headless sheep in northern kingdom
- Country garden under sweet williams initially
- PM finishing bottom left the country
- Country with Cornish, Cornish project?
- Japanese copper married in the country
- Journalist taken aback by news of the country
- Saw a lost paradise in Scandinavian country
- Cornwall’s paradise for the country
- Dope turned up outside of French country
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The straight part
We know that "country" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case country = sweden.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.