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Spanish health resort? (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

spa

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'health resort?' is the definition.
(spa can mean a health resort)

'spanish' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'spanish' could be 'sp' and 'sp' is located in the answer.
A single letter 'a' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for spa that I've seen before include "Where people go for spring" , "Resort with mineral water spring" , "E.g. Harrogate" , "Boston" , "eg Vichy" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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