The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 plus 6 letter word PLAY TRUANT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PLAY TRUANT
- Miss school drama article placed for son in trust
- Avoid school of tuna raptly swimming
- Act so, being out of form
- Avoid aunt partly upset
- Partly nervous university worker’s to avoid the classroom
- Dodge a turn aptly out of order
- Fail to honour the commitments of one’s class?
- Hamlet, for example, gets mainly faithful worker to skive
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The straight part
We know that "to skive" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case to skive = play truant.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.