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It's not designed to cure home with unpleasant smell (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

placebo

'it's not designed to cure' is the definition.

'home with unpleasant smell' is the wordplay.
'home' becomes 'place' ('place' can be a synonym of 'home'**).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'unpleasant smell' becomes 'bo' (informal abbreviation for body odour).
'place'+'bo'='PLACEBO'

(Other definitions for placebo that I've seen before include "memorial service" , "Psychosomatic remedy" , "Medicine given for its psychological benefit alone" , "drug for clinical trial" , "innocuous dose" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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