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Mountain lakes making sailor extremely nervous (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tarns

'mountain lakes' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'sailor extremely nervous' is the wordplay.
'sailor' becomes 'tar' (slang term for a sailor).
'extremely' suggests removing the centre (only the extremes of the word are used).
'nervous' with its middle taken out is 'ns'.
'tar'+'ns'='TARNS'

'making' acts as a link.

(Another definition for tarns that I've seen is " Mountain lakes".)

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