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Uninhibitedness in a strip club? Not half (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

abandon

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'uninhibitedness' is the definition.
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'in a strip club? not half' is the wordplay.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a' becomes 'an'.
'strip club?' becomes 'band' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'not' becomes 'no' (I've seen this in other clues).
'half' indicates taking half.
'no' cut in half is 'o'.
'band'+'o'='bando'
'an' enclosing 'bando' is 'ABANDON'.

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(Other definitions for abandon that I've seen before include "Jack in" , "scrap" , "Completely give up; desert" , "Give up; leave behind" , "Junk" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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