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Goes to a dentist, awful, that I have left (7)

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attends

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'goes to' is the definition.
('attend' can be a synonym of 'go to')

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(Other definitions for attends that I've seen before include "to listen carefully" , "Appears" , "ministers" , "Heeds" , "Listens" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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