Coffee half-hourly in recent days (8)
I believe the answer is:
latterly
'in recent days' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'coffee half-hourly' is the wordplay.
'coffee' becomes 'latte' (I've seen this before).
'half' suggests halving the letters.
'hourly' with half the letters taken is 'rly'.
'latte'+'rly'='LATTERLY'
(Other definitions for latterly that I've seen before include "In recent times" , "Nowadays, of late" , "In the recent past" , "Nowadays or recently" , "In recent days" .)