The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word APRIL
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result APRIL
- Trouble crossing Peru, oddly, some time in spring
- Sampled at intervals, hamper will do for several weeks
- Trouble acquiring voting system within a month
- A voting system one left for a month
- So-called cruellest month sees couple in trouble
- Worry about electoral system for thirty days
- Botanical outgrowth, soft inside, seen in late springtime
- Penny in old money chucked back by such a fool
- A quiet brook’s long lost part of spring
- Period of trouble keeping control of image
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