Teams forced to accommodate trendy fellow traveller (8)
I believe the answer is:
shipmate
'fellow traveller' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'teams forced to accommodate trendy' is the wordplay.
'forced' is an anagram indicator.
'to accommodate' is an insertion indicator.
'trendy' becomes 'hip' (I've seen this before).
'teams' is an anagram of 'smate'.
'smate' going around 'hip' is 'SHIPMATE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for shipmate that I've seen before include "Fellow sailor" , "Colleague on board" , "Friend on board" , "Fellow crewman" , "Fellow crew member" .)