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Dance by degrees become sweet, intoxicating? (3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rum babas

'sweet intoxicating?' is the definition.
(rum baba is a type of pudding containing alcohol)

'dance by degrees' is the wordplay.
'dance' becomes 'rumba' (rumba is a kind of dance).
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'degrees' becomes 'BAs' (BA is an example).
'rumba'+'bas'='RUM BABAS'

'become' acts as a link.

(Another definition for rum babas that I've seen is " Sponges".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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