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Fishing port with a centre for making nets (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ostend

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'fishing port' is the definition.
'Ostend' can be an answer for 'port' (I've seen this before). I'm unsure of the 'fishing' bit.

'with a centre for making nets' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'a centre' means to look at the middle letters.
'making nets' becomes 'stend' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The central letter of 'for' is 'o'.
'o'+'stend' is 'OSTEND'.

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(Other definitions for ostend that I've seen before include "Port - doesn't (anag)" , "cross-channel port" , "somewhere in Europe" , "Port -- stoned (anag)" , "Port in Belgium" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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