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Dance and drink with beau regularly (5)

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I believe the answer is:

rumba

'dance' is the definition.
(rumba is a type of dance)

'drink with beau regularly' is the wordplay.
'drink' becomes 'rum' (rum is a kind of drink).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
The alternate letters of 'beau' are 'ba'.
'rum'+'ba'='RUMBA'

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for rumba that I've seen before include "one's on the floor for it" , "Cuban folk-dance" , "music one can dance to" , "number of steps" , "What to perform" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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