The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word RUSTICATE
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More clues leading to the result RUSTICATE
- Send down girl who’s out of practice for speaking?
- Implied backsliding in plan to leave town
- Expel university staff, mostly cutting charge
- Ban from college game, one about to take place in New York, say
- Suspend girl who’s out of practice, we’ve heard
- Brown shrew in Padua said to inhabit the countryside
- Send down unpractised Duchess for audience
- Banish debilitating influence that is enveloping jazz fan
- Understood about blocking plan to send down student
- Evidence of lack of work that is around cool guy, leading to ban from college
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The straight part
We know that "to go to live in the country" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case to go to live in the country = rusticate.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does RUSTICATE mean?
RUSTICATE verb- To suspend or expel from a college or university.
- To construct in a manner so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.
- To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
- To go to reside in the country.