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Cox, perhaps, sits with nice blue on bottom of boat (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scientist

'cox' is the definition.
(Brian Cox is a scientist)

'sits with nice blue on bottom of boat' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'blue' is an anagram indicator (blue can mean a mistake).
'on bottom of' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'boat' is 't'.
'sits'+'nice'='sitsnice'
'sitsnice' with letters rearranged gives 'scientis'.
'scientis'+'t'='SCIENTIST'

'perhaps' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for scientist that I've seen before include "`Tis nicest kind of specialist" , "It's insect, strangely, this learned person knows about" , "Researcher - boffin" , "entomologist maybe" , "Person conducting experiments" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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