Cryptic crossword clue
I shunned bottled spirit allowance for about 30 years 10

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word GENERATION

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The straight part
We know that "about 30 years" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case about 30 years = generation.
The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GENERATION mean?

GENERATION noun
  1. The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.
  2. The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
  3. Race, family; breed.
  4. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
  5. Descendants, progeny; offspring.
  6. The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
  7. A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
  8. The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
  9. A specific age range whose members can relate culturally to one another.
  10. A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
  11. A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.

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