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Temporary home period I included (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

interim

'temporary' is the definition.
(I know that temporary can be written as interim)

'home period i included' is the wordplay.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'period' becomes 'term' (term is a kind of period).
'included' is an insertion indicator.
'term' going around 'i' is 'terim'.
'in'+'terim'='INTERIM'

(Other definitions for interim that I've seen before include "Temporary - provisional" , "Stopgap" , "not there for ever" , "Meanwhile" , "Meantime; temporary" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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