The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SALSA
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More clues leading to the result SALSA
- Sauce sadly backfiring, tasteless ultimately inside
- A lass dancing — this?
- Sauce eaten by colossal savage
- Lass organised a dance
- As short girl gets up, dance
- Latin entertained by special men with a dance
- Latin moves a hack to come up short
- Saucy dance?
- About 50 soldiers going to a dance
- Dance son's entered unfortunately, going the wrong way
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The straight part
We know that "Saucy dance?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case saucy dance? = salsa.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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What does SALSA mean?
SALSA noun- A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and hot peppers.
- A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock.
- Any of several dances performed to salsa music.
- To dance the salsa.