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How teams play? Rather! (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

somewhat

'rather' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'how teams play?' is the wordplay.
'play?' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'play' mean this).
'how'+'teams'='howteams'
'howteams' anagrammed gives 'SOMEWHAT'.

(Other definitions for somewhat that I've seen before include "Quite" , "To an extent, a little" , "Moderately" , "To a certain extent" , "To a small or moderate degree" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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