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Hate having a house in Bangor's outskirts (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

abhor

'hate' is the definition.
(abhorring is a kind of hating)

'a house in bangor's outskirts' is the wordplay.
'house' becomes 'ho' (abbreviation for house).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'outskirts' means to remove the middle letters (I've seen 'outskirts of' mean this).
'bangor' with its centre removed is 'br'.
'ho' going inside 'br' is 'bhor'.
'a'+'bhor'='ABHOR'

'having' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for abhor that I've seen before include "Loathe, find repugnant" , "Reject" , "Sea between Africa and Australia" , "Regard with disgust and hatred" , "cannot stand" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun and The Times.
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