The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word HOGMANAY
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More clues leading to the result HOGMANAY
- Pig chap always used for celebration
- Scottish festival always associated with chap minding pigs?
- This revelry could bring about my early hangover
- Greedy type has quite a few, hosting a New Year celebration
- Time to bring in the new, distressed mahogany
- Porker, chap always finding time for excessive drinking?
- Meanly keep mum – no time to 16!
- Swineherd always seen in celebration?
- Time to celebrate a form of mahogany
- Celebrated form of mahogany
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The straight part
We know that "December 31st" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case december 31st = hogmanay.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.
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