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Dances include promotional material for songs (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ballads

'songs' is the definition.
(ballad is a kind of song)

'dances include promotional material' is the wordplay.
'dances' becomes 'balls' (ball is a kind of dance).
'include' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'promotional material' becomes 'ad' (ad is a kind of promotional material).
'balls' going around 'ad' is 'BALLADS'.

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for ballads that I've seen before include "Soppy songs!" , "Popular songs" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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