At home Hilary maybe accepts current stopgap (7)
I believe the answer is:
interim
'stopgap' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'at home hilary maybe accepts current' is the wordplay.
'at home' becomes 'in' ('I'm in' can mean 'I'm at home').
'hilary maybe' becomes 'term' (as in Hilary term at the University of Oxford).
'accepts' indicates putting letters inside.
'current' becomes 'I' (symbol for electric current).
'term' enclosing 'i' is 'terim'.
'in'+'terim'='INTERIM'
(Other definitions for interim that I've seen before include "acting" , "An intervening period of time" , "not there for ever" , "Meantime - provisional" , "Meanwhile" .)