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Team up to cook raw rice? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aircrew

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'team up' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both groups as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'cook raw rice?' is the wordplay.
'cook' is an anagram indicator.
'raw'+'rice'='rawrice'
'rawrice' is an anagram of 'AIRCREW'.

'to' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for aircrew that I've seen before include "Flight staff" , "flyers" , "Staff manning a plane" , "Flying personnel" , "Flight personnel" .)

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