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Nat has to look around for the body (6)

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I believe the answer is:

senate

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'the body' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Political body' mean 'senate' so perhaps 'body' could also mean 'senate')

'nat has to look around' is the wordplay.
'has' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'to' becomes 'se' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'look' becomes 'see'.
'around' says to take the centre.
The middle letter of 'see' is 'e'.
'nat' put after 'se' is 'senat'.
'senat'+'e'='SENATE'

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for senate that I've seen before include "Second house of the Oireachtas" , "Upper assembly of US" , "Political body" , "The upper house in parliament or oireachtas" , "Legislative assembly" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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