Tea before 5 on vacation, very defnitely not 4 (6)

Guardian Cryptic #29070 | 16 Down | 2023-05-15
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

at least in the online version, the clue has ‘defnitely’ instead of ‘def i nitely’ definition: not the POSHEST (4dn). My Chambers has CHAV as “Someone who appears to have access to money but not necessarily to taste” – in my experience it is used to describe a certain type/caricature of young working-class people CHA=”tea” + V (5, in Roman numerals) + V-er-Y ‘vacated’ of its inner letters

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