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At sea warn prince, finding toothed marine mammal (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

narwhal

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'marine mammal' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'at sea warn prince' is the wordplay.
'at sea' is an anagram indicator.
'prince' becomes 'hal' (Shakespearean nickname of Henry V when a prince).
'warn' with letters rearranged gives 'narw'.
'narw'+'hal'='NARWHAL'

'finding toothed' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for narwhal that I've seen before include "Warn Hal there's a whale here" , "Tusked sea mammal" , "Sea creature with a long spiral tusk" , "Cetacean with large tusk" , "swimmer" .)

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