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Maybe trawl centre of Croydon for suspect (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fishy

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'for suspect' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'maybe trawl centre of croydon' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'trawl' could be 'fish' (I've seen this before) and 'fish' is present in the answer.
A single letter 'y' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for fishy that I've seen before include "Suspect" , "Questionable" , "Arousing suspicion" , "Ray is so" , "Suspicious in piscine way" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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