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Place for putting inexperienced member of party (5)

Ross

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green

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(Other definitions for green that I've seen before include "Inexperienced - olive coloured" , "Environmentally-friendly" , "like 29 [MARTIAN] , stereotypically" , "Murderer" , "personification of envy" .)

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