Meat cooked twice for sports partner (4-4)
I believe the answer is:
team-mate
'meat cooked twice for sports partner' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'meat cooked twice for sports partner' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'meat' is 'team' which is present in the answer.
'partner' could be 'mate' (synonyms) and 'mate' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for team-mate that I've seen before include "Fellow competitor" , "Sporting ally" .)