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Raunchy crew in outskirts of Salisbury (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

steamy

'raunchy' is the definition.

'crew in outskirts of salisbury' is the wordplay.
'crew' becomes 'team' (I've seen this before).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'outskirts of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'salisbury' with its centre removed is 'sy'.
'team' going into 'sy' is 'STEAMY'.

(Other definitions for steamy that I've seen before include "Erotic, sexy" , "Salacious" , "Hot and misty" , "Hot and humid - erotic" , "Torrid, erotic" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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