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Alas, eats, roughly up to this extended point (2,4,2)

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I believe the answer is:

as late as

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'up to this extended point' is the definition.
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'alas eats roughly' is the wordplay.
'roughly' indicates an anagram.
'alas'+'eats'='alaseats'
'alaseats' is an anagram of 'AS LATE AS'.

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