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Group excursions after vacation in river (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ganges

'river' is the definition.
(Ganges is an example)

'group excursions after vacation' is the wordplay.
'group' becomes 'gang' (gang is a kind of group).
'after vacation' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (the inside letters must vacate).
'excursions' with its centre removed is 'es'.
'gang'+'es'='GANGES'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for ganges that I've seen before include "River flowing into the Bay of Bengal" , "Hindus' most sacred river" , "Indian flower" , "Holy river on India" , "Holy Indian river" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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