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Questionable to supply shortened sung performance (9)

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equivocal

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'questionable' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'supply shortened sung performance' is the wordplay.
'supply' becomes 'equip' (equipping is a kind of supplying).
'shortened' means to remove the last letter.
'sung performance' becomes 'vocal' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'equip' with its last letter removed is 'equi'.
'equi'+'vocal'='EQUIVOCAL'

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(Other definitions for equivocal that I've seen before include "Dithering, evasive" , "Questionable" , "suspicious" , "uncertain" , "it's indefinite" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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