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Exposure to current kind of blue and white clothing succeeded (8,5)

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I believe the answer is:

electric shock

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'exposure to current' is the definition.
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'kind of blue and white clothing succeeded' is the wordplay.
'kind of blue' becomes 'electric' (electric blue is a shade of blue).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'white' becomes 'hock' (type of white wine).
'clothing' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters cover up or clothe others).
'succeeded' becomes 's' (genealogical abbreviation).
'electric'+'hock'='electrichock'
'electrichock' placed around 's' is 'ELECTRIC SHOCK'.

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