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Shifting last of crops, harvest mice stocking up then? (9,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

christmas eve

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'stocking up then?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to time as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'shifting last of crops harvest mice' is the wordplay.
'shifting' indicates an anagram.
'last of' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'crops' is 's'.
's'+'harvest'+'mice'='sharvestmice'
'sharvestmice' with letters rearranged gives 'CHRISTMAS EVE'.

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(Other definitions for christmas eve that I've seen before include "Twenty fourth of December" , "Time to hang up stockings" , "today" , "December 24th" , "Seventeen days ago" .)

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