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Both sexes love to get stuck into rising amount of work? That’s stupid (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

damfool

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'both sexes love to get stuck' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'rising amount of work? that's stupid' is the wordplay.
'rising' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (going up in a down clue).
'amount of work?' becomes 'mad' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'that's stupid' becomes 'fool' (similar in meaning).
'mad' reversed gives 'dam'.
'dam'+'fool'='DAMFOOL'

'into' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for damfool that I've seen is " It's very stupid".)

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