Crossword Genius

It requires fellow players giving support to hold back dangerous stuff (4,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

team game

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'it requires fellow players' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'support to hold back dangerous stuff' is the wordplay.
'support' becomes 'tee' (tee is a kind of support).
'to hold' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'back' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'dangerous stuff' becomes 'magma' (magma is a kind of stuff. I am not sure about the 'dangerous' bit.).
'magma' back-to-front is 'amgam'.
'tee' placed around 'amgam' is 'TEAM GAME'.

'giving' acts as a link.

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