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Go down in reserve team? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

subside

'go down' is the definition.
(subsiding is a kind of going down)

'reserve team?' is the wordplay.
'reserve' becomes 'sub' (I've seen this in other clues).
'team?' becomes 'side' (I've seen this before**).
'sub'+'side'='SUBSIDE'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for subside that I've seen before include "Wear off or die down" , "Sink to a lower level" , "(Flood) go down" , "Diminish" , "(Of floods) go down" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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