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Beginning to try a new turn in dance (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tango

'dance' is the definition.
(tangoing is a kind of dancing)

'beginning to try a new turn' is the wordplay.
'beginning to' says to take the initial letters.
'a new' becomes 'an' (I've seen this in other clues).
'turn' becomes 'go' (a person's move in a board game).
The first letter of 'try' is 't'.
't'+'an'+'go'='TANGO'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for tango that I've seen before include "Steps" , "Latin-American dance - code for T" , "Letter T in radio comms" , "Dramatic dance form Argentina" , "Latin American dance (requiring two?)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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