Possible Clues:

• Alcove - school break
• Pause in business, time out
• Niche; adjournment
• About a hundred, and a character - has created a niche
• Area covered by Cabot's wandering is a Mexican state
• Set back
• Concerned with an engineer on a ship getting a break
• A depression in the building trade
• Papers not beginning to cover city break
• Niche; temporary cessation of parliament