The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ARCADIA
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More clues leading to the result ARCADIA
- Song about ungentlemanly guy in rural setting?
- Song about stinker seen in rural idyll
- A number keeping swine in ideal rural setting
- Song about deceiver in rural idyll
- Help a hundred artists from the east to discover a Greek idyll
- Rescue vessel called to help a backward region in Greece once
- Song about devil’s place of contentment
- Song with villain invading idyllic land
- Rural area rotter’s written into melody
- Song about in idyllic location
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The straight part
We know that "rural area" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case rural area = arcadia.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.