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Holiday accommodation doing well in arctic centre (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chalet

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'holiday accommodation' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'well in arctic centre' is the wordplay.
'well' becomes 'hale' (I've seen this in another clue).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'centre' means to look at the middle letters.
The middle letters of 'arctic' are 'ct'.
'hale' placed into 'ct' is 'CHALET'.

'doing' is the link.
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(Other definitions for chalet that I've seen before include "Swiss summer hut" , "holiday property?" , "Small hut in holiday camp" , "The lac (anag.)" , "Wooden house of Alpine regions" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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