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Accurately remembered cycling to France twice each year (3,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

off pat

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'accurately remembered cycling' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'france twice each year' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'france' could be 'ff' (an abbreviation for France written twice) and 'ff' is found in the answer.
'each year' could be 'pa' (abbreviation for per annum) and 'pa' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ot' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'to' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for off pat that I've seen before include "Perfectly memorised" , "Recalled perfectly" , "Fluent" , "Faithfully retained" , "exactly recalled" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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