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Professional compassion reduced debts -- that's lucky (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

propitious

'that's lucky' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'professional compassion reduced debts' is the wordplay.
'professional' becomes 'pro' (abbreviation).
'compassion' becomes 'pity' (pity is a kind of compassion).
'reduced' means to remove the last letter.
'debts' becomes 'IOUs' (promises to pay debts).
'pity' with its last letter taken away is 'pit'.
'pro'+'pit'+'ious'='PROPITIOUS'

(Another definition for propitious that I've seen is " Of good omen".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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