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Relief as revolutionary secures victory, help arriving at critical moment?

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life-saver

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'help arriving at critical moment?' is the definition.
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'relief as revolutionary secures victory' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary' indicates an anagram.
'secures' indicates putting letters inside.
'victory' becomes 'v'.
'relief'+'as'='reliefas'
'reliefas' with letters rearranged gives 'lifesaer'.
'lifesaer' enclosing 'v' is 'LIFE-SAVER'.

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(Other definitions for life-saver that I've seen before include "Vital help when in serious difficulty" , "One rescuing swimmer" , "I've flares for person who helps in time of great need" , "Something that comes to one's aid at a critical moment" .)

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