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Do without someone to lead the team (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

skip

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'do without' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are verbs in their base form.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'someone to lead the team' is the wordplay.
'to lead' suggests taking the first letters.
'the team' becomes 'kip' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The first letter of 'someone' is 's'.
's'+'kip'='SKIP'

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(Other definitions for skip that I've seen before include "Bob" , "Leap - leave out" , "Jump - rubbish container - captain - omit" , "Move with hops and steps" , "Hop, leap" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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