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Renewed and rebuilt tables in back of major English independent workshop (2-11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

re-established

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'renewed' is the definition.
(re-establish can mean to renew or start again)

'rebuilt tables in back of major english independent workshop' is the wordplay.
'rebuilt' indicates an anagram.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'back of' suggests the final letters.
'english independent' becomes 'ei' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'workshop' becomes 'shed'.
The final letter of 'major' is 'r'.
'tables' is an anagram of 'establ'.
'r'+'ei'='rei'
'establ' put into 'rei' is 'reestabli'.
'reestabli'+'shed'='RE-ESTABLISHED'

'and' acts as a link.

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