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Break during academic period — is boy outside front of institute? (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

intermission

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'break' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'during academic period is boy outside front of institute?' is the wordplay.
'during' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'academic period' becomes 'term' (I've seen this before).
'boy' becomes 'inson' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'outside' is an insertion indicator.
'front of' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'institute' is 'i'.
'term'+'is'='termis'
'termis' put inside 'inson' is 'intermisson'.
'intermisson' enclosing 'i' is 'INTERMISSION'.

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(Other definitions for intermission that I've seen before include "Break; respite" , "Theatre's half-time" , "Pause, break" , "Entr'acte" , "Interval" .)

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