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Queen replacing theatre in time for procession (8)

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I believe the answer is:

sequence

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'for procession' is the definition.
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'queen replacing theatre in' is the wordplay.
'replacing' indicates an anagram (placing again).
'theatre' becomes 'sce' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'queen' is an anagram of 'equen'.
'equen' put inside 'sce' is 'SEQUENCE'.

'time' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for sequence that I've seen before include "Ordered series" , "26 [ORDER]" , "Series of things in order" , "The following of one thing after another in orderly way" , "Arrangement of things in order" .)

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