The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word OCTOBER
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More clues leading to the result OCTOBER
- Love to live in credit some weeks
- 31 days of course initially has to be right
- Month in which men will secure court award
- Love to be in credit for a few weeks
- For several weeks, outside court, turned up to show further disapproval?
- Be stopping spin expert, heading off for Number Ten in a year
- Commander right about alternative to Hamlet, period
- Officer in charge with future king in time of revolution?
- Month round Connecticut – temperate, no sun
- … only to be caught by zero credit for a month
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The straight part
We know that "31 days" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case 31 days = october.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.