Like Kevin McCallister for much of the movie (5)

I believe the answer is:

alone

(Other definitions for alone that I've seen before include "Note of charges" , "Without others present" , "Singly" , "Exclusively; solitary" , "With no one to see" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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