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That woman's maintaining a prohibition on salsa appearing regularly in Latin dances (9)

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I believe the answer is:

habaneras

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'latin dances' is the definition.
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'that woman's maintaining a prohibition on salsa appearing regularly' is the wordplay.
'that woman' becomes 'her' (I've seen this before**).
'maintaining' indicates putting letters inside.
'prohibition' becomes 'ban' (ban is a kind of prohibition).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'appearing regularly' indicates alternate letters.
The alternating letters of 'salsa' are 'as'.
'a'+'ban'='aban'
'her' going around 'aban' is 'habaner'.
'habaner'+'as'='HABANERAS'

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