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Politician taking steps to secure my agreement (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

concordance

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'agreement' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'politician taking steps to secure my' is the wordplay.
'politician' becomes 'con'.
'taking steps' becomes 'dance' ('dance step' can be a synonym of 'step'. I am not sure about the 'taking' bit.**).
'to secure' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'my' becomes 'cor' (I've seen this in other clues).
'con'+'dance'='condance'
'condance' placed around 'cor' is 'CONCORDANCE'.

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(Other definitions for concordance that I've seen before include "Agreement; list of words" , "book for Bible scholars" , "Cruden's work" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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