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Get into trouble -- look inside for crew member (2-5)

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2-5

co-pilot

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'crew member' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'get into trouble look inside' is the wordplay.
'get into trouble' becomes 'cop it' (to cop it is to receive punishment).
'look' becomes 'lo' (archaic exclamation meaning 'look!').
'inside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'copit' placed around 'lo' is 'CO-PILOT'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for co-pilot that I've seen is " Part of a flight deck team".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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