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Brown needs energy for this dance! (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tango

'this dance' is the definition.
(tango is a kind of dance)

'brown needs energy' is the wordplay.
'brown' becomes 'tan' (tan is a kind of brown).
'needs' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'energy' becomes 'go' (I've seen this in other clues).
'tan'+'go'='TANGO'

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for tango that I've seen before include "Movement from Argentina" , "Activity requiring two to" , "reputedly takes two" , "one followed by uniform" , "One from Argentina" .)

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