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In vehicle, give temporary use of a book of annual dates (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

calendar

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'book of annual dates' is the definition.
'calendar' can be an answer for 'book' (thesaurus). I'm unsure of the 'of annual dates' bit.

'in vehicle give temporary use of a' is the wordplay.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'vehicle' becomes 'car' (car is a kind of vehicle).
'give temporary use of' becomes 'lend' (I've seen this in another clue).
'lend'+'a'='lenda'
'car' placed around 'lenda' is 'CALENDAR'.

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(Other definitions for calendar that I've seen before include "System for dividing the year" , "series of dates" , "Table of months and days" , "that's dated" , "List of days etc" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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