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Joining blue party, fellow secures seat (7,2)

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I believe the answer is:

saddles up

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'joining blue party fellow secures seat' is the definition.
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'joining blue party fellow secures seat' is the wordplay.
'joining' indicates putting letters inside (inserted letters join the word).
'blue party fellow' becomes 'saddleup' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'seat' indicates one should take the final letters (I've seen 'seats' mean this).
The last letter of 'secures' is 's'.
'saddleup' going around 's' is 'SADDLES UP'.

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