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Leaderless soldiers take heart over extra performance (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

encore

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

'leaderless soldiers take heart' is the wordplay.
'leaderless' means to remove the first letter.
'soldiers' becomes 'men' (men can mean a group of soldiers).
'take' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'heart' becomes 'core' (synonyms).
'men' with its initial letter removed is 'en'.
'en'+'core'='ENCORE'

'over' is the link.

(Other definitions for encore that I've seen before include "Request for repeat performance" , "Cry from the audience for more" , "We need more" , "(Call for) repeat performance" , "Bis!" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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