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Twenty four hours on island for personal assistant (3,6)

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I believe the answer is:

man friday

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'personal assistant' is the definition.
'man friday' can be an answer for 'assistant' (man Friday is a kind of assistant). I am unsure of the 'personal' bit.

'twenty four hours on island' is the wordplay.
'twenty four hours' becomes 'friday' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'island' becomes 'Man' (the Isle of Man is an example).
'friday' put after 'man' is 'MAN FRIDAY'.

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for man friday that I've seen before include "Title or name of Robinson Crusoe's servant" , "loyal helper ..." , "Faithful servant" , "Male factotum" , "Male helper" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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