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Theatre occupied vacant time (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

odeon

'theatre' is the definition.
(in ancient Greece)

'occupied vacant time' is the wordplay.
'vacant' means to remove the middle letters.
'time' becomes 'eon' (eon is a kind of time**).
'occupied' with its middle removed is 'od'.
'od'+'eon'='ODEON'

(Other definitions for odeon that I've seen before include "dramas here" , "Classical Greek concert hall" , "Greek music hall" , "Ancient Greek concert hall" , "Do one (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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