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Pleased naked lies trapped left-leaning setter? (2,3)

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in use

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'pleased' is the definition.
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'naked lies trapped left-leaning setter?' is the wordplay.
'naked' indicates the central letters.
'trapped' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'left-leaning' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (letters written right to left).
'setter?' becomes 'sun' (the sun sets every day).
The centre of 'lies' is 'ie'.
'sun' reversed gives 'nus'.
'ie' placed around 'nus' is 'IN-USE'.

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(Other definitions for in use that I've seen before include "taken?" , "Current" , "Engaged" , "prevailing" , "Being employed - unavailable" .)

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