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At home, I love having emperor round – but it's not very spacious (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

incommodious

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'at home i love having emperor round but' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'not very spacious' is the wordplay.
'not very' becomes 'in' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'spacious' becomes 'commodious' ('commodious' can be similar in meaning to 'spacious').
'in'+'commodious'='INCOMMODIOUS'

'it's' is the link.

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(Another definition for incommodious that I've seen is " Cramped - inconvenient".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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