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Don't touch German on his way around Germany (5,3)

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I believe the answer is:

hands off

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'don't touch' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'german on his way around germany' is the wordplay.
'german' becomes 'Hans' (common German name).
'on his way' becomes 'off' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'germany' becomes 'd' (vehicle registration code for Deutschland).
'hans'+'off'='hansoff'
'hansoff' going around 'd' is 'HANDS-OFF'.

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(Other definitions for hands off that I've seen before include "Don't touch!" , "Not getting involved" , "Don't interfere" , "Operated by remote control" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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