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M-A---O (2,5)
CLUE-Earnestly echoed chant during ruthless cost-cutting.

I suspected something operatic, eg., 'mi amigo' or something that would be a chant and would fit, but I think I've gone wrong-help, please...

Might it be mi amore?

Ex animo?
(Latin - from the heart)

I also have A???O for the second part. I don't have the M? of the first part as I have not yet found 5d!

Thanks Sally-trouble is it doesn't accord with O ending. Also I don't know where cost-cutting is..

Ta, DickI. Where's the 'cost-cutting'?

To both-it's EX ANIMO-5d. ends in E, not M.

Om (chant) in axe (ruthless cost cutting) echoed (put back gives Exa ni mo, so it looks likely.

It's EX ANIMO-ta to all 3 of you.