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Called to attend case of genie inhabiting bedsit? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

paged

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'called to attend' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'case of genie inhabiting bedsit?' is the wordplay.
'case of' means to remove the middle letters (like emptying a case).
'inhabiting' means one lot of letters goes inside another (I've seen this in other clues).
'bedsit?' becomes 'pad' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'genie' with its middle removed is 'ge'.
'ge' inserted inside 'pad' is 'PAGED'.

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(Other definitions for paged that I've seen before include "Called to phone" , "Summoned over a PA system" , "Called a name over a PA system" , "called by Speaker" , "Called over a public address system" .)

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