Spooner’s collaborative site’s tags for awkward situations (6,7)

I believe the answer is:

sticky wickets

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'spooner's collaborative site's tags' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'awkward situations' is the wordplay.
'awkward' becomes 'sticky' (synonyms).
'situations' becomes 'wickets' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sticky'+'wickets'='STICKY WICKETS'

'for' acts as a link.

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