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Scottish celebration to monopolise mother? On the contrary! (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hogmanay

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'scottish celebration' is the definition.
(I know that Hogmanay is a type of scottish celebration)

'monopolise mother? on the contrary' is the wordplay.
'monopolise' becomes 'hog' (I've seen this before).
'mother?' becomes 'ma' (ma can mean mother).
'on the contrary' becomes 'nay' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hog'+'ma'+'nay'='HOGMANAY'

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(Other definitions for hogmanay that I've seen before include "Scottish New Year's Eve" , "New Year's Eve in Glasgow" , "New Year's Eve (Scots)" , "New Year's Eve north of the border" , "Scottish celebration framed in mahogany" .)

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