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Wildness in musicians performing? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

abandon

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'wildness' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'musicians performing?' is the wordplay.
'musicians' becomes 'aband' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'performing?' becomes 'on' (as in being on stage).
'aband'+'on'='ABANDON'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for abandon that I've seen before include "Permanently desert" , "Lack of inhibition; desert" , "Leave (a place) for ever" , "Wantonness: desert" , "scrap" .)

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