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Room in a hospital department accommodating dishevelled tramp (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

apartment

'room' is the definition.
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'a hospital department accommodating dishevelled tramp' is the wordplay.
'hospital department' becomes 'ent'.
'accommodating' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'dishevelled' indicates an anagram.
'a'+'ent'='aent'
'tramp' is an anagram of 'partm'.
'aent' placed around 'partm' is 'APARTMENT'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for apartment that I've seen before include "Flat (chiefly US)" , "quarters" , "19 across" , "Flat (mainly US)" , "property" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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