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Hospital boy's raised to court daughter with fragrance (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sandalwood

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'fragrance' is the definition.

'hospital boy's raised to court daughter' is the wordplay.
'hospital' becomes 'san' (I've seen this before).
'boy's raised' becomes 'dal' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to court' becomes 'woo' (synonyms).
'daughter' becomes 'd'.
'san'+'dal'+'woo'+'d'='SANDALWOOD'

'with' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for sandalwood that I've seen before include "Sweet-scented timber" , "Oil producer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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