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Survives war, and these must be repaired (8)

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I believe the answer is:

weathers

'survives' is the definition.

'war and these must be repaired' is the wordplay.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'must be repaired' indicates anagramming the letters.
'war' after 'these' is 'thesewar'.
'thesewar' with letters rearranged gives 'WEATHERS'.

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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