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Exhausted and heading away from dance, considering everything (3,2,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

all in all

'considering everything' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'exhausted and heading away from dance' is the wordplay.
'exhausted' becomes 'allin' ('all in' can mean exhausted).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'heading away from' means to remove the first letter.
'dance' becomes 'ball' (ball is a kind of dance).
'ball' with its first letter taken away is 'all'.
'allin'+'all'='ALL IN ALL'

(Other definitions for all in all that I've seen before include "Taking everything into consideration" , "As a whole, considering everything" , "in summary" , "Taken as a whole, everything considered" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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