Male enters carrying spare IT equipment (12)

I believe the answer is:

motherboards

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'it equipment' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'male enters carrying spare' is the wordplay.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'enters' becomes 'boards' (boarding is a kind of entering).
'carrying' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, the bottom letters carry others).
'spare' becomes 'other' (other can mean spare or alternative).
'boards' after 'other' is 'otherboards'.
'm'+'otherboards'='MOTHERBOARDS'

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