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Finish work during September, making a beehive (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

skep

'a beehive' is the definition.
(skep is a kind of beehive)

'finish work during september' is the wordplay.
'finish' says to take the final letters.
'during' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'september' becomes 'sep' ('Sep' can be a synonym of 'september').
The last letter of 'work' is 'k'.
'k' going within 'sep' is 'SKEP'.

'making' is the link.

(Another definition for skep that I've seen is " Straw beehive".)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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