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Hold up a new deal with a Yankee (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

delay

'hold up' is the definition.
(I know that hold up can be written as delay)

'a new deal with a yankee' is the wordplay.
'a new' indicates an anagram.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a yankee' becomes 'y' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'deal' with letters rearranged gives 'dela'.
'dela'+'y'='DELAY'

(Other definitions for delay that I've seen before include "Time lapse" , "Put off until later" , "Defer; make late" , "Procrastinate - put off" , "Linger - slow down - put off" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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