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Pack up an ear-piece in a box (5)

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I believe the answer is:

cease

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'pack up' is the definition.
'cease' can be an answer for 'pack' (thesaurus). I'm not certain of the 'up' bit.

'an ear-piece in a box' is the wordplay.
'an ear-piece' becomes 'e' (this could be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a box' becomes 'case' (I've seen this before).
'e' inserted into 'case' is 'CEASE'.

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(Other definitions for cease that I've seen before include "Political group" , "Come to an end" , "Discontinue" , "Stop, finish" , "Desist" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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