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Action station? (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

battleground

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'action station?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'action station?' is the wordplay.
'action' becomes 'battle' (military action).
'station?' becomes 'ground' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'battle'+'ground'='BATTLEGROUND'

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(Other definitions for battleground that I've seen before include "where action has taken place" , "Area of conflict" , "arena" , "scene of conflict" , "Army hospital near here perhaps" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail and The Guardian.
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