LEVEE (5)

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During `____` apocalypse, Evelyn returned `____` ... when the `____` breaks, originating from Kansas and Memphis (5)

wordplay: "During ____ apocalyps(E, EVEL)yn returned ____" (extraneous punctuation ignored)

def: "... when the ____ breaks, originating from Kansas and Memphis"
("When the Levee Breaks" is a lyric and original song by blues duo Memphis Minnie & Kansas McCoy -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Levee_Breaks; a more popular version of that original work was later covered by Led Zeppelin)

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10260 During `____` apocalypse, Evelyn returned `____` ... when the `____` breaks, originating from Kansas and Memphis (5) wordplay: "During ____ apocalyps(E, EVEL)yn returned ____" (extraneous punctuation ignored)

def: "... when the ____ breaks, originating from Kansas and Memphis"
("When the Levee Breaks" is a lyric and original song by blues duo Memphis Minnie & Kansas McCoy -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Levee_Breaks; a more popular version of that original work was later covered by Led Zeppelin)
rpl 3
10261 Where I drove my Chevy with a flat, after turning left into avenue's end (5) where i drove my chevy -> defn (this is a lyric from don mclean's american pie)
flat -> LEVEL
left -> L
avenue's end -> E
turn L into E in LEVEL to get LEVEE
empyreu 3
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