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High road is finished and old man's beginning from scratch (8)

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I believe the answer is:

overpass

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'high road' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'finished and old man's beginning from scratch' is the wordplay.
'finished' becomes 'over' (over can mean finished or ended).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'old man's' becomes 'pa's' (both can mean someone's father).
'beginning from scratch' becomes 's' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'over'+'pas'+'s'='OVERPASS'

'is' is the link.

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(Other definitions for overpass that I've seen before include "Flyover" , "High-level road" , "bridge" , "high road" .)

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