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Of course. Thanks, chrise. I'm appropriately red-faced.

Serpentine steps from the legless? (5,4)

Some Tuscon gal in El Paso often seen at parties (5,4)

aristo @19 re my clue @10

It moves like an eel caught on angler's gear (5,4)

You are correct in all respects, Aristo, EEL is doing double duty

It moves like an eel=definition =the snakelike movement of a conga line
eel=conger (sounds like conga)
caught (overheard) = homophone indicator
angler's gear=line

How Tommy could dance! (5,4)

Beat me to it Marty, my gal was from macon.

"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one person" (5, 4)
Crass 76/77

Conga line is definitely not what this anarchic band had in mind

Quite the nosegay of neat anagrams; perhaps my favorite of these was ixion’s @12, “go in and clean”, great with the snowplow formation. Other nice touches were mattrom @4, which had me picturing a bovine New Year’s Eve party, also @10, the nifty “eel caught”, and chrise @6, “active file” (since I usually favor creative- or misleading- definitions). I’m going with BigBad @23 as the winner, for “hitting the right tone”:

Some Tuscon gal in El Paso often seen at parties (5,4)

An interesting fact about El Paso: the populace is supposed to be unusually happy (though how is this measured?), and this is attributed to the lithium in the water supply (not added but natural). Perhaps this explains the conga lines.

Here’s your prize, BigBad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deJ9lpNBZUA

Thanks to all for inspired entries!

Congrats BBM and thanks aristo.

I thought that this selection of clues was particularly good - there were several (including Marty's of course) that would have been worthy winners.

well done Marty, good clue

thanks to aristo for hosting - nice clip