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Addresses nun eating fish, to get salt cellar (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shaker

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'salt cellar' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'addresses nun eating fish' is the wordplay.
'addresses nun' becomes 'sr' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'eating' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'fish' becomes 'hake' (type of fish).
'sr' enclosing 'hake' is 'SHAKER'.

'to get' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for shaker that I've seen before include "Cocktail mixer" , "Salt cellar" , "Member of American Christian sect" , "Container to make a cocktail" , "Member of ecstatic sect" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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