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Promises frisky sauna, ultimately wanting caress (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

assurances

'promises' is the definition.
(assurance is a kind of promise)

'frisky sauna ultimately wanting caress' is the wordplay.
'frisky' indicates an anagram.
'ultimately wanting' means to remove the last letter (wanting can mean lacking).
'sauna' with its final letter taken away is 'saun'.
'saun'+'caress'='sauncaress'
'sauncaress' with letters rearranged gives 'ASSURANCES'.

(Another definition for assurances that I've seen is " Promises".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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