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Grease and fiddle with crude erection? (3,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oil rig

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'crude erection?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'grease and fiddle' is the wordplay.
'grease' becomes 'oil' (I've seen this before).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'fiddle' becomes 'rig' (I've seen this before).
'oil'+'rig'='OIL-RIG'

'with' is the link.

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(Other definitions for oil rig that I've seen before include "Structure for drilling for viscous liquid" , "Fuel well" , "'Structure for drilling (3,3)'" , "What may be boring" , "I would do well" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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