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Disney property's function - hiding naked dance (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dumbo

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'disney property's function' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'hiding naked dance' is the wordplay.
'hiding' becomes 'dumb' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'naked' means to look at the middle letters (outside letters removed so centre is unclothed).
'dance' becomes 'hop' (hop is a kind of dance).
The middle letter of 'hop' is 'o'.
'dumb'+'o'='DUMBO'

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(Other definitions for dumbo that I've seen before include "1941 film about a young circus elephant born with large ears" , "idiot" , "Disney's baby elephant" , "Disney's flying elephant" , "Disney film about an elephant" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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