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Male in band gets break (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

smash

'break' is the definition.
(smashing is a kind of breaking)

'male in band' is the wordplay.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'band' becomes 'sash' (sash is a kind of band**).
'm' put within 'sash' is 'SMASH'.

'gets' is the link.

(Other definitions for smash that I've seen before include "Hard tennis shot" , "Completely destroy" , "Destroy violently" , "something very popular" , "Break noisely into pieces" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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