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Eight days of celebration in month on avenue (6)

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I believe the answer is:

octave

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'eight' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'month on avenue' is the wordplay.
'month' becomes 'Oct' (abbreviation for October).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'avenue' becomes 'ave'.
'oct'+'ave'='OCTAVE'

'days of celebration in' is the link.
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(Other definitions for octave that I've seen before include "Interval from one C to the next C" , "A group of eight consecutive musical notes" , "Series of eight notes in music" , "Twelve semitones" , "Musical interval doubling note frequency" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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