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Coffee's popular, so they say, after soft-shoe (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

moccasin

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'shoe' is the definition.
(I know that moccasin is a type of shoe)

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(Other definitions for moccasin that I've seen before include "Soft leather 11" , "Footwear" , "Crow's foot perhaps covered in this" , "Sonic mac (anag.)" , "Venomous American snake" .)

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