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Drop from reserve team (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

subside

'drop' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'reserve team' is the wordplay.
'reserve' becomes 'sub' (I've seen this in other clues).
'team' becomes 'side' (I've seen this before**).
'sub'+'side'='SUBSIDE'

'from' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for subside that I've seen before include "Wear off or die down" , "Diminish" , "(Of floods) go down" , "Become less intense" , "decline" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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