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Comes into home with heartless, reclusive people (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

inherits

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'comes into' is the definition.
('inherit' can be a synonym of 'come into')

'home with heartless reclusive people' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'home' could be 'in' (to be in is to be (at) home) and 'in' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for inherits that I've seen before include "Without effort, gets" , "Receives under terms of will" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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