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Pacified Scottish out in outhouse (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

soothed

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'pacified scottish' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with human feelings as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'out in outhouse' is the wordplay.
'out' becomes 'oot' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'outhouse' becomes 'shed' (a shed is an outside building).
'oot' going inside 'shed' is 'SOOTHED'.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for soothed that I've seen is " Calmed or reduced pain".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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