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People accepting offers from sailors around centre of Liskeard (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

takers

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'people' is the definition.
(taker is a kind of person)

'sailors around centre of liskeard' is the wordplay.
'sailors' becomes 'tars' (tar is a kind of sailor).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'centre of' says to take the centre.
The central letters of 'liskeard' are 'ke'.
'tars' going around 'ke' is 'TAKERS'.

'accepting offers from' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Another definition for takers that I've seen is " Captors".)

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