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Agreeing with spouse, I left side in time (3,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yes dear

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'agreeing with spouse' is the definition.
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'i left side in time' is the wordplay.
'left' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'time' becomes 'year' (I've seen this before).
'side' with 'i' taken away is 'sde'.
'sde' placed inside 'year' is 'YES DEAR'.

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