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Long for several months before the beginning of November (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yearn

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'long for' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'several months before the beginning of november' is the wordplay.
'several months' becomes 'year' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'before' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the beginning of' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'november' is 'n'.
'year'+'n'='YEARN'

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(Other definitions for yearn that I've seen before include "Curdle" , "Feel desire" , "Mark of injury" , "Desire, want" , "Have an intense feeling of longing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish News.
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