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Peak time's ending! Vacation at front with English break? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

everest

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'peak' is the definition.
(Everest is an example)

'time's ending vacation at front with english break?' is the wordplay.
'ending' says to take the final letters.
'vacation' becomes 'rest'.
'at' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'front with english break?' becomes 've' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The last letter of 'time' is 'e'.
'rest' after 've' is 'verest'.
'e'+'verest'='EVEREST'

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(Other definitions for everest that I've seen before include "One conquered in 1953" , "The highest mountain of all (7)" , "A mountain to climb" , "High peak" , "Highest peak" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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