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A home featured in newspaper is unsteady (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

faint

'unsteady' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'a home featured in newspaper' is the wordplay.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'featured in' indicates putting letters inside.
'newspaper' becomes 'ft' (Financial Times newspaper).
'a'+'in'='ain'
'ain' going into 'ft' is 'FAINT'.

'is' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for faint that I've seen before include "Barely perceptible" , "hard to hear" , "(Of a chance) slight" , "feeble" , "Swoon, pass out" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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