Cryptic crossword clue
About time team line-up is organised, second from the 23 11

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 11 letter word PENULTIMATE

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The straight part
We know that "A" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case a = penultimate.
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What does PENULTIMATE mean?

PENULTIMATE noun
  1. A penult, a next-to-last thing, particularly:
PENULTIMATE adjective
  1. (in United States usually formal) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
  2. Of or pertaining to a penult.
  3. Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.

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