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Starry team gets real! (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sidereal

'starry' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'team gets real' is the wordplay.
'team' becomes 'side' (both can mean a sports team).
'gets' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'side'+'real'='SIDEREAL'

(Other definitions for sidereal that I've seen before include "Full of stars" , "Relating to the constellations" , "involving stars" , "Relating to the distant stars" , "Realised (anag) -- relating to the stars" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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