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Bathe with a girl on the quiet (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dip

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'bathe with' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'a girl on the quiet' is the wordplay.
'a girl' becomes 'di' (short for Diane or Diana).
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'the quiet' becomes 'p' (music symbol for 'piano', ie soft or quiet).
'di'+'p'='DIP'

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(Other definitions for dip that I've seen before include "A quick bathe" , "Duck" , "Lower into liquid" , "Thick sauce; brief swim" , "Go down" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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