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Good day doing exercises, breaks in the routine? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hiatuses

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'breaks in the routine?' is the definition.
'hiatuses' can be an answer for 'breaks' (hiatus is a kind of break). I'm not certain of the 'in the routine?' bit.

'good day doing exercises' is the wordplay.
'good day' becomes 'hi'.
'doing' becomes 'at' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'exercises' becomes 'uses' (to exercise something can mean to use it).
'hi'+'at'+'uses'='HIATUSES'

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(Other definitions for hiatuses that I've seen before include "Openings" , "breaks" , "Gaps in sequence for a Hussite" .)

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