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Dancer who had nothing between meals, unusually (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

salome

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'dancer who' is the definition.
'salome' can be an answer for 'dancer' (I've seen this before). I am not sure about the rest of the definition.

'nothing between meals unusually' is the wordplay.
'nothing' becomes 'O' (looks like zero - 0).
'between' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'unusually' is an anagram indicator.
'meals' is an anagram of 'salme'.
'o' put into 'salme' is 'SALOME'.

'had' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for salome that I've seen before include "Her dancing pleased Herod" , "Seven veils dancer" , "Herod's niece in Wilde play" , "She danced famously for Herod" , "13 dn for Herod" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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