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Your escorts posed for Playboy? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

satyr

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'playboy?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'your escorts posed' is the wordplay.
'your' becomes 'yr' (shortened version of 'your' in eg textspeak).
'escorts' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'posed' becomes 'sat' (posed or sat for an artist).
'yr' after 'sat' is 'SATYR'.

'for' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for satyr that I've seen before include "Goatlike man of mythology" , "Forest god - old goat" , "Mythological woodland deity" , "Forest god; lustful man" , "He dances in the woods" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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