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An arm and a leg, pelvis or body? (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

membership

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'body?' is the definition.
(I know that membership is a type of body)

'an arm and a leg pelvis' is the wordplay.
'an arm and a leg' becomes 'members' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'pelvis' becomes 'hip' (synonyms).
'members'+'hip'='MEMBERSHIP'

'or' is the link.

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(Other definitions for membership that I've seen before include "body" , "For everybody in organisation" , "What a joiner gets" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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