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At any cost I organised a kind of holiday (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

staycation

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'a kind of holiday' is the definition.
'staycation' can be an answer for 'holiday' (I have seen 'local holiday' mean 'staycation' so perhaps 'holiday' could also mean 'staycation'). I am not sure about the 'a kind of' bit.

'at any cost i organised' is the wordplay.
'organised' indicates an anagram.
'at'+'any'+'cost'+'i'='atanycosti'
'atanycosti' is an anagram of 'STAYCATION'.

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(Other definitions for staycation that I've seen before include "Holiday at home" , "local holiday" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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