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Favoured condition entered by European is provisional (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

interim

'provisional' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'favoured condition entered by european' is the wordplay.
'favoured' becomes 'in' (I've seen this in other clues).
'condition' becomes 'trim' (I've seen this before**).
'entered by' is an insertion indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'trim' going around 'e' is 'terim'.
'in'+'terim'='INTERIM'

'is' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for interim that I've seen before include ", I'm put in grave situation initially" , "An intervening period of time" , "acting" , "Temporary - provisional" , "Meantime - provisional" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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