Figure second row should drop back (5)

Guardian Cryptic #29084 | 9 Across | 2023-05-31
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

MO (moment, "second"); with TIFF=quarrel="row", dropping its back letter for a while I thought it might be FIT="row" reversed/"back", but fit=row doesn't quite work

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