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Means of protection for circus acrobats, say (6,4)

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I believe the answer is:

safety nets

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'say' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'means of protection for circus acrobats' is the wordplay.
'means of protection' becomes 'safety net' (I've seen this before).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'circus acrobats' becomes 's' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'safetynet'+'s'='SAFETY NETS'

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