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A thousand invested in somewhere to sleep that’s heated (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

baked

'heated' is the definition.
(baking is a kind of heating)

'a thousand invested in somewhere to sleep' is the wordplay.
'thousand' becomes 'k' ('K' can be a synonym of 'thousand'**).
'invested in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'somewhere to sleep' becomes 'bed'.
'a'+'k'='ak'
'ak' put within 'bed' is 'BAKED'.

'that's' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for baked that I've seen before include "Cooked in an oven" , "Cooked (bread/cakes)" , "Cooked like a cake" , "Got very hot in jacket" , "cold before 8 [STATE]..." .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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