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Putin's pad? Yes for him with ace central heating installed (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dacha

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'putin's pad? yes for him' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how they can define each other.

'with ace central heating installed' is the wordplay.
'with' becomes 'da' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ace' becomes 'a'.
'central heating' becomes 'ch'.
'installed' indicates putting letters inside.
'da'+'a'='daa'
'daa' placed around 'ch' is 'DACHA'.

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(Other definitions for dacha that I've seen before include "Country home in Russia" , "A Russian country cottage" , "Russian holiday cottage" , "Russian house in the country" , "property overseas" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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