If this is correct, I don't quite see why...
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Of course - for some perverse reason I was trying to translate 'follow' into Portuguese!Portuguese for 'with' + 't(h)e'.
Stuck again. Country of origin for the cheese?Sanitary lab makes cheese (5,6)
Had to think a bit...then realised we'd relocated to Italy.
Is this a mallard I eat upon? Non, monsieur! (5,1,2,7)