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Abandon rear of house completely (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

quite

'completely' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'abandon rear of house' is the wordplay.
'abandon' becomes 'quit' (quitting is a kind of abandoning).
'rear of' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'house' is 'e'.
'quit'+'e'='QUITE'

(Other definitions for quite that I've seen before include "Completely or entirely - be quiet" , "Fairly; indeed" , "Somewhat - I agree" , "To a degree" , "Somewhat; fully" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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