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Savages
live,
pasts
quietly
forgotten
(6)
Savages live, pasts quietly forgotten (6)
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How the clue works
Savages is your definition. For the wordplay, live gives you BE, then take pasts and drop the P — since quietly is P in musical notation, and it's been forgotten — leaving ASTS. Put BE and ASTS together and there you have it.