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Versatile stage director prospers (4,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gets ahead

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'prospers' is the definition.
('get ahead' can be a synonym of 'prosper')

'versatile stage director' is the wordplay.
'versatile' is an anagram indicator.
'director' becomes 'head' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'stage' with letters rearranged gives 'getsa'.
'getsa'+'head'='GETS AHEAD'

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(Another definition for gets ahead that I've seen is " Takes the lead".)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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