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Intensely keen to strip around noon, and love exposing tongue (9)

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I believe the answer is:

esperanto

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'tongue' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'intensely keen to strip around noon and love' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'to' is present in the answer.
'noon' could be 'n' and 'n' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'exposing' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for esperanto that I've seen before include "Language invented by Dr Zamenhof" , "A language; neat prose (anag.)" , "contrived speech" , "common language" , "Personate (anag.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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