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Flights I missed in crisis at sea unfortunately (10)

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I believe the answer is:

staircases

'flights' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'i missed in crisis at sea unfortunately' is the wordplay.
'missed in' is a deletion indicator.
'unfortunately' is an anagram indicator.
'crisis'+'at'+'sea'='crisisatsea'
'crisisatsea' with 'i' taken away is 'crsisatsea'.
'crsisatsea' with letters rearranged gives 'STAIRCASES'.

(Another definition for staircases that I've seen is " flights".)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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