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Back at sea (6)

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'back at sea' is the definition.
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'back at sea' is the wordplay.
'back' becomes 'stern' (stern means the back of a boat).
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'sea' becomes 'a' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'stern' after 'a' is 'ASTERN'.

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(Other definitions for astern that I've seen before include "Towards a ship's rear" , "Behind the back of a ship" , "at the vessel's rear" , "following behind vessel" , "Towards back of boat" .)

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