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Entertained by situation, you reportedly saw compilers in stadium (6,7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

circus maximus

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'stadium' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'entertained by situation you reportedly saw compilers' is the wordplay.
'entertained by' is an insertion indicator.
'situation' becomes 'circs' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'you reportedly' becomes 'U' (homophone of 'you').
'saw' becomes 'maxim' (a saw can mean a proverb or maxim).
'compilers' becomes 'us' (the compiler and their colleagues).
'circs' placed around 'u' is 'circus'.
'circus'+'maxim'+'us'='CIRCUS MAXIMUS'

'in' is the link.

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(Another definition for circus maximus that I've seen is " Largest Roman hippodrome".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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