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Fish isn't cooked by poet (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

stingray

'fish' is the definition.
(type of fish)

'isn't cooked by poet' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates anagramming the letters (letters cooked into a new form).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'poet' becomes 'gray' (18th-century poet Thomas Gray).
'isnt' with letters rearranged gives 'stin'.
'stin'+'gray'='STINGRAY'

(Other definitions for stingray that I've seen before include "menace in the water" , "Large fish with tail spine" , "Poisonous spined fish" , "Fish with venomous tail" , "TV show" .)

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