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Descent with rope possibly taking a long time (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lineage

'descent' is the definition.
('lineage' can be a synonym of 'descent')

'rope possibly taking a long time' is the wordplay.
'rope possibly' becomes 'line' (rope is a kind of line**).
'taking' says to put letters next to each other.
'a long time' becomes 'age' ('age' can be a synonym of 'long time').
'line'+'age'='LINEAGE'

'with' is the link.

(Other definitions for lineage that I've seen before include "Descent (from an ancestor)" , "The strain" , "Family descent" , "Direct descent" , "Line of descendants of an ancestor" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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