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Naval officer eats shrimp at sea (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shipmaster

'naval officer' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'eats shrimp at sea' is the wordplay.
'at sea' indicates anagramming the letters.
'eats'+'shrimp'='eatsshrimp'
'eatsshrimp' anagrammed gives 'SHIPMASTER'.

(Another definition for shipmaster that I've seen is " Captain".)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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