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Men with baseball bats force Kanye West to get undressed (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yankees

'men with baseball bats' is the definition.
(New York Yankees, baseball team)

'force kanye west to get undressed' is the wordplay.
'force' is an anagram indicator (letters must be forced into a new order).
'to get undressed' means to look at the middle letters (I've seen 'gets undressed' mean this).
The middle letters of 'west' are 'es'.
'kanye' is an anagram of 'yanke'.
'yanke'+'es'='YANKEES'

(Other definitions for yankees that I've seen before include "New York baseball team" , "rebellious ex- colonists" , "Northern soldiers in the American Civil War" , "Code words on the radio for US" , "Ball-players" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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