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Sound conclusion, mostly, about vulgar festival (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

halloween

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'festival' is the definition.
(October 31st festival)

'sound conclusion mostly about vulgar' is the wordplay.
'sound' becomes 'hale' (both can mean healthy).
'conclusion mostly' becomes 'en' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'vulgar' becomes 'low'.
'hale'+'en'='haleen'
'haleen' going around 'low' is 'HALLOWEEN'.

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(Other definitions for halloween that I've seen before include "special night" , "annual celebration" , "October 31" , "autumnal celebration" , "autumn night" .)

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