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Give speech at venue where students have assembled (7,7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lecture theatre

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'venue where students have assembled' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'give speech at' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'speech' could be 'lecture' (synonyms) and 'lecture' is found within the answer.
'at' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'there' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Another definition for lecture theatre that I've seen is " hall".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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