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Somewhere to live comfortably in a row with a bit of garden (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dwelling

'somewhere to live' is the definition.

'comfortably in a row with a bit of garden' is the wordplay.
'comfortably' becomes 'well' ('well' can be a synonym of 'comfortably').
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a row' becomes 'din' (both can mean a loud disturbance**).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'a bit of' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'garden' is 'g'.
'well' going inside 'din' is 'dwellin'.
'dwellin'+'g'='DWELLING'

(Other definitions for dwelling that I've seen before include "Harping" , "Living place" , "Habitation" , "Domicile" , "Home" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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