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Goes into chippies wanting fish (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

enters

'goes into' is the definition.
('enter' can be a synonym of 'go into')

'chippies wanting fish' is the wordplay.
'chippies' becomes 'carpenters' (chippy can informally mean a carpenter).
'wanting' indicates named letters should be taken away (wanting can mean lacking).
'fish' becomes 'carp' (carp is a kind of fish).
'carpenters' with 'carp' taken away is 'ENTERS'.

(Other definitions for enters that I've seen before include "Inserts" , "Registers for a competition, say" , "Goes in or records in book" , "Records, in a diary say" , "Comes in" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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