The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word MAMBO
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More clues leading to the result MAMBO
- Cuban steps over short snake first
- Voodoo priestess’s dance
- In the Caribbean, steps taken to have chairman welcome doctor
- Doctor prods Communist leader to take rhythmic steps
- Poisonous snake? Ultimately nothing for a voodoo priestess
- Old woman’s doctor with old type of 26+4 19D
- Snake without tail used by old voodoo priestess
- A doctor embracing another in dance
- Mother and boyfriend rumored to dance
- Dance with Mike on platform in church
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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 = mambo.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MAMBO mean?
MAMBO noun- A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
- A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
- To perform this dance.