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Cathy's new bloke is a sailor (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yachtsman

'sailor' is the definition.
(yachtsman is a kind of sailor)

'cathy's new bloke' is the wordplay.
'new' is an anagram indicator.
'bloke' becomes 'man' (I've seen this in other clues).
'cathys' is an anagram of 'yachts'.
'yachts'+'man'='YACHTSMAN'

'is a' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for yachtsman that I've seen before include "(Recreational) sailor" , "Description of Chichester" , "crafty person" , "Sir Francis Chichester, perhaps" , "Member of sailing crew" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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