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Dance scholar with ten moves (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

charleston

'dance' is the definition.
(charleston is a kind of dance)

'scholar with ten moves' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'moves' indicates an anagram.
'scholar' put after 'ten' is 'tenscholar'.
'tenscholar' with letters rearranged gives 'CHARLESTON'.

(Other definitions for charleston that I've seen before include "Nineteen twenties dance" , "Lively 1920s' dance" , "Lively dance - then carols (anag)" , "Dance making" , "Town of South Carolina which gave its name to a 1920s dance craze" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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