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House with tailless mice? That's funny! (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

comic

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'funny' is the definition.
(comic can mean funny or humorous)

'house with tailless mice?' is the wordplay.
'house with' becomes 'co' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'tailless' means to remove the last letter (the tail of the word is removed).
'mice' with its final letter removed is 'mic'.
'co'+'mic'='COMIC'

'that's' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for comic that I've seen before include "Funny entertainer, often stand-up" , "Funny, ridiculous" , "Funny man, maybe stand-up" , "Stand-up possibly" , "Raising a laugh" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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