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13 Down - "Excessively pressurise because of old refrain" (10). The answer has to be "OVERBURDEN" but, once again, why?

The marks are still on the wall from headbanging after my last query!

A "burden" was an ancient term for a refrain, sort of. See here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauxbourdon

Many thanks for your reply - all I needed to do was look in the dictionary as "burden" obviously referred to "refrain".

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