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Marine fish, a food not fully digested in Hebridean isle (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

barracuda

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'marine fish' is the definition.
'barracuda' can be an answer for 'fish' (barracuda is a kind of fish). I am not sure about the 'marine' bit.

'a food not fully digested in hebridean isle' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'a' is within the answer.
'food' could be 'cud' (cud is a kind of food) and 'cud' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for barracuda that I've seen before include "Voracious marine fish" , "Voracious tropical fish" , "Large predatory sea fish" , "Vicious swimmer" , "Marine attacker" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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