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What complicated completion of house sale? (5)

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I believe the answer is:

lease

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'what complicated completion of house sale?' is the definition.
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'complicated completion of house sale?' is the wordplay.
'complicated' is an anagram indicator (a complex or confusing ordering of the letters).
'completion of' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'house' is 'e'.
'e'+'sale'='esale'
'esale' is an anagram of 'LEASE'.

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(Other definitions for lease that I've seen before include "Tenancy contract" , "Let; rent" , "Contract for, say, use of building" , "Contract for use of land or building" , "Letting contract" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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