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Time for lessons (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

schoolage

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'time for lessons' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'time for lessons' is the wordplay.
'time' becomes 'age' (an age is a period of time).
'for' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'lessons' becomes 'school' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'age' after 'school' is 'SCHOOLAGE'.

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I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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