Like wreck exposed, full of salt (9)

I believe the answer is:

barnacled

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'like wreck exposed full of salt' is the definition.
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'exposed full of salt' is the wordplay.
'exposed' becomes 'bared' (baring is a kind of exposing).
'full of' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'salt' becomes 'nacl' (NaCl is the chemical formula for sodium chloride).
'bared' enclosing 'nacl' is 'BARNACLED'.

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