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Young swimmers out with a girl once a week (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

friday

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'a week' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to time as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'young swimmers out with a girl' is the wordplay.
'young swimmers out' becomes 'fry' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'with' indicates putting letters inside.
'a girl' becomes 'Ida'.
'fry' placed around 'ida' is 'FRIDAY'.

'once' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for friday that I've seen before include "It's payday for some" , "Where the weekend starts?" , "Its child is loving and giving" , "Weekend start?" , "Day named after a Norse goddess" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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