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Song period mostly covered by book — inferior revised thesis (5,4,5)

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bless this house

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'song period' is the definition.
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'mostly covered by book inferior revised thesis' is the wordplay.
'mostly' becomes 'hou' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'covered by' indicates putting letters inside.
'book' becomes 'b' (abbreviation for book).
'inferior' becomes 'less' (lesser or less significant).
'revised' indicates an anagram.
'thesis' with letters rearranged gives '[thesis]'.
'b'+'less'+'[thesis]'='bless[thesis]'
'hou' going into 'blessthisse' is 'BLESS THIS HOUSE'.

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