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Abolish open farm border - it's lost its edge (9)
Okay, it's a bit of a beast so I'll drop a hint:
The wordplay is formed of a word with another (non-anagramatically) modified word appended.
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modified 3-Jul-18 7:07am.
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Not sure about this, but hey ho...
Abolish UN
open (anag)
farm BELT?
border END
it's lost its edge
BLUNTENED
I'm kinda hoping this is completely wrong ... 
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I hope you're wrong too that's a horrible word 
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Pretty horrible, yes. But legitimate unfortunately.
And I'd rather kleep "bluntened" in the language than "innit"
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Can't find bluntened in my dictionary - I would say blunted ( followed by two spaces ) 
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It's a little archaic, but the past participle of blunten[^]
It's going to depend on which dictionary you use, probably - and which version!
I'd suspect it's a "Jacob Rees-Mogg word" in practice.
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You have it then  why is UN abolish ?
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I was thinking "un" as in "reverse of" prefix.
But I was entirely wrong! Yay! 
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Well, no, it's not bluntened. It's a truly hideous word and one that I'd never heard before, so at least I've learnt a word even though I swear that I'll never use it again.
Actually no part of the word-play there is correct - maybe that helps a bit ...
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Hooray!
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So what was the solution? I got nothin' ...
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modified 3-Jul-18 9:01am.
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Open = OVERT
Farm border = HEDGEROW - losing its EDGE becomes HROW giving us OVERTHROW (a synonym for abolish).
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 I had HEDGE for farm border, but couldn't think of "ABOLISH" as "--------H", or at least nothing that meant OPEN.
Well done - you win!
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Winning is a questionable concept - I have to think of another one now!
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I know the feeling - I lost my last few creations when I restored the disk recently - that'll teach me to keep data on the wrong damn disk!
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It only becomes the wrong disk when it fails!
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Or when you restore the system disk over the top of it because "I never keep data on C:" 
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Oops! (And yes, I've done the same thing to in-spite of "never" doing it!)
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Nope. Didn't see anything resembling that.
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