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Even members of yacht team excuse me! (4)

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I believe the answer is:

ahem

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'excuse me' is the definition.
(both might be said to get someone's attention)

'even members of yacht team' is the wordplay.
'even members of' indicates alternate letters (letters in even-numbered positions are used).
'team' becomes 'em' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The alternate letters of 'yacht' are 'ah'.
'ah'+'em'='AHEM'

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(Other definitions for ahem that I've seen before include "Utterance of mild disapproval" , "call attracting attention" , "attempt to attract attention" , "Sound used to attract attention" , "Throat clearing sound to catch attention" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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