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Flounder perhaps to acquire home that's complete (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

finish

'complete' is the definition.
(I know that complete can be written as finish)

'flounder perhaps to acquire home' is the wordplay.
'flounder perhaps' becomes 'fish' (flounder is a kind of fish).
'to acquire' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'fish' enclosing 'in' is 'FINISH'.

'that's' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for finish that I've seen before include "Bring to an close" , "Refinement in social graces" , "Deal with" , "Pefect" , "Treatment of surface" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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