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Stories about Brideshead, possibly learnt at school (6)

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tables

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'stories about brideshead' is the wordplay.
'stories' becomes 'tales' ('tale' can be a synonym of 'story').
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'brideshead' becomes 'b' (head letter of 'brides').
'tales' enclosing 'b' is 'TABLES'.

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(Other definitions for tables that I've seen before include "Turn these to reverse the situation in your own favour" , "Turn these to gain the advantage" , "Sit at the strange stable" , "Turn these to gain the upper hand" , "Facts and figures arranged in columns" .)

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