The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 plus 5 letter word PASO DOBLE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PASO DOBLE
- Steps taken as father’s old, getting billions in benefit
- Booed pals performing
- Errant – so bad – pole dance
- Music, not French, stirred English blood
- Old man alone interrupted by time of arrival for dance
- Affected a bold pose in dance
- Steps taken with school accepting a second old boy, the Parisian
- A bold pose transformed this dance
- Dance Pablo does badly
- Dance well with person brought up in post
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The straight part
We know that "dance" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dance = paso doble.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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