Odd characters ejected from Minnesota this month (4)
I believe the answer is:
inst
'this month' is the definition.
(letter-writing abbreviation for this month)
'odd characters ejected from minnesota' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'from' could be 'in' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'in' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'st' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for inst that I've seen before include "Business usage for this month" , "This month in brief, as in corres" , "Be sorry for" , "Business notation for the current month" , "In brief, this month in correspondence" .)