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Escape mounted under cover of school timetable (8)

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I believe the answer is:

schedule

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'timetable' is the definition.
(I know that schedule is a type of timetable)

'escape mounted under cover of school' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'school' could be 'sch' (abbreviation) and 'sch' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for schedule that I've seen before include "Timetable of planned events or work" , "Inventory - programme" , "You don't see loafers on this" , "Syllabus" , "List of times when things should happen" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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