Danced and got drunk embracing sweetheart (7)
I believe the answer is:
tangoed
'danced' is the definition.
(tangoing is a kind of dancing)
'and got drunk embracing sweetheart' is the wordplay.
'drunk' is an anagram indicator.
'embracing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'sweetheart' becomes 'e' (the heart/centre of 'sweet').
'and'+'got'='andgot'
'andgot' anagrammed gives 'tangod'.
'tangod' enclosing 'e' is 'TANGOED'.
I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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