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Hits with skill and talent, finally breaking teeth (5-7)

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chart-toppers

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'hits' is the definition.
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'skill and talent finally breaking teeth' is the wordplay.
'skill' becomes 'art' (I've seen this before).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'finally' says to take the final letters.
'breaking' is an insertion indicator.
'teeth' becomes 'choppers' (chopper is a kind of tooth).
The last letter of 'talent' is 't'.
'art'+'t'='artt'
'artt' inserted into 'choppers' is 'CHART-TOPPERS'.

'with' is the link.

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