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Stolen deposit causes tricky situation (3,4)

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hot seat

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'tricky situation' is the definition.
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'stolen deposit' is the wordplay.
'stolen' becomes 'hot' (stolen goods are 'hot').
'deposit' becomes 'seat' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hot'+'seat'='HOT SEAT'

'causes' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for hot seat that I've seen before include "Position of full responsibility (colloq.)" , "Eat host In position of person with difficult responsibilities." , "Hates to be in difficult position" , "from which bottom quick to rise?" , "new constituency" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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