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House at Beach head, a warm place (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hob

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'a warm place' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'house at beach head' is the wordplay.
'house' becomes 'ho' (abbreviation for house).
'at' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'head' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'beach' is 'b'.
'ho'+'b'='HOB'

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(Other definitions for hob that I've seen before include "Hot plate" , "Cooker ring" , "Top of stove" , "Flat metal shelf at side of fireplace" , "Small goblin" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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