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Reportedly bestow the title of 'sir' on Picaroon? Time to party till dawn! (4,1,5,2,2)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

make a night of it

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'reportedly bestow the title of sir on picaroon?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.

'time to party till dawn' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'time' could be 'night' (night is a kind of time) and 'night' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for make a night of it that I've seen before include "Party late" , "Party at length" , "Extend an enjoyable activity into the small hours" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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