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Island resident's fight to retain passport? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

friday

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'island resident's fight to retain passport?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'fight to retain passport?' is the wordplay.
'fight' becomes 'fray' (fray is a kind of fight).
'to retain' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'passport?' becomes 'id' (a passport is identification).
'fray' going around 'id' is 'FRIDAY'.

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(Other definitions for friday that I've seen before include "One of seven" , "An islander" , "one of Chesterton's, so-called" , "Day named after a Norse goddess" , "twenty-four hours" .)

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