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Musical captures naked night clubs (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cabarets

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'night clubs' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'musical captures naked' is the wordplay.
'musical' becomes 'Cats' (Andrew Lloyd Webber musical).
'captures' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'naked' becomes 'bare' (without clothing).
'cats' placed around 'bare' is 'CABARETS'.

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(Other definitions for cabarets that I've seen before include "Floorshows in restaurants and nightclubs" , "Nightclubs with entertainment" , "Entertainments in nightclubs" .)

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