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Punished for a drunken dance (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

caned

'punished' is the definition.
(beaten with cane)

'drunken dance' is the wordplay.
'drunken' indicates anagramming the letters.
'dance' with letters rearranged gives 'CANED'.

'for a' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for caned that I've seen before include "punished" , "beat" , "given stick" , "Thoroughly defeated" .)

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