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Beauty arranging working party around ballet centre (5)

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I believe the answer is:

belle

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'beauty' is the definition.
(I've seen this in other clues)

'party around ballet centre' is the wordplay.
'party' becomes 'bee' (I've seen this in another clue).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'centre' says to take the centre.
The central letters of 'ballet' are 'll'.
'bee' enclosing 'll' is 'BELLE'.

'arranging working' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for belle that I've seen before include "Attractive woman" , "Reigning beauty" , "Handsome lady of the Ball?" , "Beautiful female" , "Girl who's fetching" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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