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Gifted small son brought in milk (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

blessed

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'gifted small' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with ownership as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'son brought in milk' is the wordplay.
'son' becomes 'ss' (I've seen this in other clues).
'brought in' is an insertion indicator.
'milk' becomes 'bleed' (I've seen this in another clue).
'ss' placed within 'bleed' is 'BLESSED'.

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(Other definitions for blessed that I've seen before include "Made lucky - made holy" , "Happy; beatified" , "Bedless (anag.)" , "darned" , "Consecrated" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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