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Painter working in US opera house? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

monet

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'painter' is the definition.
(artist Claude Monet)

'working in us opera house?' is the wordplay.
'working' becomes 'on' (on can mean working or activated).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'us' becomes 'me' ('us' can mean 'mean' in some UK dialects).
'opera house?' becomes 't' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on' put into 'me' is 'mone'.
'mone'+'t'='MONET'

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(Other definitions for monet that I've seen before include "Claude --, French impressionist painter" , "Claude, impressionist painter, d. 1926" , "Claude ---, painter (waterlilies)" , "Giverny painter" , "French impressionist (Waterlilies)" .)

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