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Family holidaying mostly on old Pacific island (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

okinawa

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'pacific island' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'family holidaying mostly on old' is the wordplay.
'family' becomes 'kin' (synonyms).
'holidaying mostly' becomes 'awa' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'old' becomes 'o' (abbreviation).
'kin'+'awa'='kinawa'
'kinawa' put after 'o' is 'OKINAWA'.

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(Other definitions for okinawa that I've seen before include "Campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific" , "American victory, June 1945" , "Island of S. Japan" , "Pacific island" , "battle!" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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