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Huge mime performance taking three different directions (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

immense

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'huge' is the definition.
(I know that huge can be written as immense)

'mime performance taking three different directions' is the wordplay.
'performance' indicates anagramming the letters.
'taking three different directions' becomes 'nse' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'mime' with letters rearranged gives 'imme'.
'imme'+'nse'='IMMENSE'

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(Other definitions for immense that I've seen before include "Vast or enormous" , "Massive" , "Very big, really huge" , "Unusually great in size" , "Exceedingly large" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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