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Fish is given to friend in a perfect world (7)

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I believe the answer is:

ideally

'in a perfect world' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'fish is given to friend' is the wordplay.
'fish' becomes 'ide' (I've seen this before**).
'is given to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'friend' becomes 'ally' (I've seen this before).
'ide'+'ally'='IDEALLY'

(Other definitions for ideally that I've seen before include "in theory" , "for preference" , "In perfect circumstances" , "In a perfect world, the best possible situation" , "In the perfect case" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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