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Pole owns home rated as inadequate? (3-4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

the moon

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'pole' is the definition.
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'owns home rated as inadequate?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'home' is 'hemo' which is within the answer.
The remaining letters 'ton' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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I've seen this clue in The Times.
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