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That's good! Scoundrel's given up second home (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dacha

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'second home' is the definition.
(I know that dacha is a type of second home)

'that's good scoundrel's given up' is the wordplay.
'that's good' becomes 'ah' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'scoundrel' becomes 'cad' (cad is a kind of scoundrel).
'given up' says the letters should be written backwards (in a down clue, letters go up).
'ah'+'cad'='ahcad'
'ahcad' in reverse letter order is 'DACHA'.

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(Other definitions for dacha that I've seen before include "Russian villa" , "Russian second home" , "Russian's second home in the country" , "A Russian country cottage" , "summer house" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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