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Choose part of film containing limitless vice — it's a shocker! (8,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

electric eel

'a shocker' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'choose part of film containing limitless vice' is the wordplay.
'choose' becomes 'elect' (electing is a kind of choosing).
'part of film' becomes 'reel' (as in a reel of film).
'containing' is an insertion indicator.
'limitless' indicates the central letters.
The centre of 'vice' is 'ic'.
'reel' going around 'ic' is 'riceel'.
'elect'+'riceel'='ELECTRIC EEL'

'it's' is the link.

(Other definitions for electric eel that I've seen before include "shocker" , "Shocking fish" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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