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Care for leader of rugby team forced into temporary accommodation (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

treatment

'care' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'leader of rugby team forced into temporary accommodation' is the wordplay.
'leader of' says to take the initial letters.
'forced' is an anagram indicator.
'into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'temporary accommodation' becomes 'tent' (I've seen this before).
The first letter of 'rugby' is 'r'.
'r'+'team'='rteam'
'rteam' with letters rearranged gives 'reatm'.
'reatm' inserted into 'tent' is 'TREATMENT'.

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for treatment that I've seen before include "Management of something, illness say" , "The handling or management of something" , "Discussion" , "Medical care for injury" , "Application of remedy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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