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Music for a lass to dance to (5)

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I believe the answer is:

salsa

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'music for a lass to dance to' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'music for a lass to dance' is the wordplay.
'music' becomes 'a' ().
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'to dance' indicates an anagram (letters must dance around).
'lass' is an anagram of 'sals'.
'a' put after 'sals' is 'SALSA'.

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(Other definitions for salsa that I've seen before include "Spicy tomato sauce" , "fling?" , "Hot dance - hot sauce" , "Latin-American dance" , "The Latin-American sound" .)

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