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Dramatically in short, it's curtains for some baker's batch/turnover (4)

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tabs

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'dramatically in short it's curtains for some baker's batchturnover' is the definition.
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'in short it's curtains for some baker's batchturnover' is the wordplay.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'short it' becomes 't' (abbreviation. e.g. in 'tis; 'short' suggests a short form).
'curtains for' suggests removing the centre (the edge letters are curtains around the word).
'some baker's' becomes 'bakers'.
'batchturnover' becomes 'a' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'bakers' with its middle taken out is 'bs'.
't'+'bs'='tbs'
'tbs' enclosing 'a' is 'TABS'.

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(Other definitions for tabs that I've seen before include "It's curtains" , "Bills in restaurants" , "Marks in computer document" , "medication" , "that are picked up by footers?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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