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Team goes in to halt closure (8)

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I believe the answer is:

screwtop

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'closure' is the definition.
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'team goes in to halt' is the wordplay.
'team' becomes 'crew' (crew is a kind of team).
'goes in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'to halt' becomes 'stop' ('stop' can be a synonym of 'halt').
'crew' placed into 'stop' is 'SCREWTOP'.

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(Other definitions for screwtop that I've seen before include "Describing a type of bottle" , "one goes on the bottle" , "that closes jar" , "kind of bottle" , "cap or lid" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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