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Temporary home one found during school period (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

interim

'temporary' is the definition.
('interim' can be similar in meaning to 'temporary')

'home one found during school period' is the wordplay.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'one found' becomes 'i' (I've seen this in other clues).
'during' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'school period' becomes 'term' (I've seen this before).
'i' going inside 'term' is 'terim'.
'in'+'terim'='INTERIM'

(Other definitions for interim that I've seen before include "Meantime - provisional" , "not there for ever" , "Meanwhile" , "temporary period" , "An intervening period of time" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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