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Indicate what's badly done by half the team (6)

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I believe the answer is:

denote

'indicate' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'badly done by half the team' is the wordplay.
'badly' is an anagram indicator.
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'half the' suggests halving the letters.
'team' halved is 'te'.
'done' anagrammed gives 'deno'.
'deno'+'te'='DENOTE'

'what's' is the link.

(Other definitions for denote that I've seen before include "Mean or signify" , "Be an indication of" , "show" , "Need to (anag) - indicate" , "Be the sign or symbol of" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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