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Guardian - Last 3 - Help To Parse Please

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JJ109 | 00:55 Sat 19th May 2018 | Crosswords
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26a Stop and Chat (5) S _ E _ K
(It must be SPEAK, but why stop?)
4d Most of the school is in old Chennai (6) _ A _ R _ S
It must be MADRAS (old Chennai) but why the rest?
15d Reprise d'enfant mange par bete noire (10) R _ P _ T _ T _ O _
It must be REPETITION (rather than reputation) and I think it is because "petit" = "little one" (enfant) in an anagram of "noire" and definition = reprise (repetition)... "mange" means eat therefore "noire" surrounds "petit". Is my logic correct ?
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madrassa is a Muslim school
01:00 Sat 19th May 2018
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15d was also all in italics, and there was an acute accent on the "e" of mange and a circumflex on the "e" of bete
madrassa is a Muslim school
15d Yes, with 'bete', stupid or silly, being the anagram indicator for 'noire'
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Thanks Jackdaw
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Thanks Iminoz - My French is mainly forgotten, I didn't understand the bete, as I thought bete noire was a "nightmare"!
... and 'mange par' with the accent, is the past tense of 'manger', to eat, so it's 'eaten by'
My high school French is pretty rusty, too.
I'm wondering about 26a, also.
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26a Twee + D
I meant the one you've listed as 26a - actually 28a.
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oops yes - my mistake 28a
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S + Top = S + Peak
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Many thanks both

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