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Lead Belly and One Direction at The Point with The Animals? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

beasts

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'the animals?' is the definition.
('beast' can be a synonym of 'animal')

'lead belly and one direction at the point' is the wordplay.
'lead belly' becomes 'b' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'one direction' becomes 'east' (compass direction).
'at' says to put letters next to each other.
'the point' becomes 'S' (S is an example).
'b'+'east'+'s'='BEASTS'

'with' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for beasts that I've seen before include "Savages" , "Basest sort of animals" , "Basset found among other animals" , "Brutes" , "Large four-footed animals or cruel people" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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