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Brazilian ready to follow team of stars (8)

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I believe the answer is:

sidereal

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'of stars' is the definition.
(sidereal means relating to the stars)

'brazilian ready to follow team' is the wordplay.
'brazilian ready' becomes 'real' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to follow' means one lot of letters go next to another (some letters go after or follow others).
'team' becomes 'side' (both can mean a sports team).
'real' put after 'side' is 'SIDEREAL'.

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(Other definitions for sidereal that I've seen before include "Of or measured by the stars" , "Of the stars or constellations" , "Realised (anag) -- relating to the stars" , "Relating to the distant stars" , "Relating to the constellations" .)

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