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Court wants special elevated seat in the Lords (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

woolsack

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'court wants special elevated seat in the lords' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'court wants special elevated seat in' is the wordplay.
'court' becomes 'woo' (both can mean to romance someone).
'wants' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'special' becomes 'S' (common abbreviation as in Special Air Service).
'elevated seat' becomes 'lack' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
's' placed within 'lack' is 'lsack'.
'woo'+'lsack'='WOOLSACK'

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(Other definitions for woolsack that I've seen before include "Where the Lord Chancellor sits" , "Seat of the Lord Chancellor in House of Lords" , "Lord Chancellor's seat" , "The Lord Speaker's seat in the House of Lords" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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