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Father with celebratory cry, pocketing dosh primarily on this? (3,3)

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I believe the answer is:

pay day

'this?' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'father with celebratory cry pocketing dosh primarily' is the wordplay.
'father' becomes 'pa' (pa can mean dad or father).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'celebratory cry' becomes 'yay' (I've seen this in another clue).
'pocketing' is an insertion indicator.
'primarily' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'dosh' is 'd'.
'yay' enclosing 'd' is 'yday'.
'pa'+'yday'='PAY-DAY'

'on' acts as a link.

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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