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Marine creature, small, this far out (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

starfish

'marine creature' is the definition.

'small this far out' is the wordplay.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'out' indicates anagramming the letters (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'this'+'far'='thisfar'
'thisfar' anagrammed gives 'tarfish'.
's'+'tarfish'='STARFISH'

(Other definitions for starfish that I've seen before include "Sea creature with five arms coming from central disk" , "Has rifts (anag)" , "Five-armed sea creature" , "Marine creature with five arms" , "Asteroid (in the sea)" .)

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