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Very good house for the titular head (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hot

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'very good' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'house for the titular head' is the wordplay.
'house' becomes 'ho' (abbreviation for house).
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'head' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'titular' is 't'.
'ho'+'t'='HOT'

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(Other definitions for hot that I've seen before include "Having a high temperature" , "Flaming - spicy" , "Very popular" , "'Strike while the iron is ...'" , "(Of food) spicy" .)

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