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Shares with awfully sick miners, backing shelters (5,2)

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I believe the answer is:

mucks in

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'miners backing shelters' is the definition.
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'shares with awfully sick' is the wordplay.
'shares' becomes 'mun' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'with' is an insertion indicator.
'awfully' indicates anagramming the letters.
'sick' with letters rearranged gives 'cksi'.
'mun' enclosing 'cksi' is 'MUCKS IN'.

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