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Dances with suspicious bachelors (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rumbas

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'dances' is the definition.
(rumba is a kind of dance)

'with suspicious bachelors' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'suspicious' becomes 'rum' (rum can mean strange or dubious).
'bachelors' becomes 'bas' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'rum'+'bas' is 'RUMBAS'.

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(Other definitions for rumbas that I've seen before include "Cuban folk dances" , "Afro-Cuban dances" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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