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Entrance giving the actors a short break (4,1,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cast a spell

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'entrance' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'giving the actors a short break' is the wordplay.
'giving' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the actors' becomes 'cast' (group of actors).
'a short break' becomes 'aspell' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cast'+'aspell' is 'CAST A SPELL'.

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