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Fish, last of four in a row (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sprat

'fish' is the definition.
(sprat is a kind of fish)

'last of four in a row' is the wordplay.
'last of' says to take the final letters.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a row' becomes 'spat' (spat is a kind of row).
The final letter of 'four' is 'r'.
'r' placed into 'spat' is 'SPRAT'.

(Other definitions for sprat that I've seen before include "Small herring-like fish" , "It may catch a mackerel" , "one on a fat-free diet" , "Small fish, sardine, say" , "It's set to catch a mackerel" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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