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Allure of pharmacist dancing naked (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

charisma

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'allure' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'pharmacist dancing naked' is the wordplay.
'pharmacist' becomes 'charism' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'dancing' becomes 'tap dancing' (tap dancing is a kind of dancing).
'naked' means to look at the middle letters (outside letters removed so centre is unclothed).
The central letter of 'tap' is 'a'.
'charism'+'a'='CHARISMA'

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for charisma that I've seen before include "Impressive gift" , "Pull" , "Compelling attractiveness" , "it inspires loyalty" , "Power to inspire people" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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