One who finds work plain sailing? (8,6)
I believe the answer is:
ordinary seaman
'one who' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'work plain sailing?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'work' could be 'man' (manning is a kind of working) and 'man' is found within the answer.
'plain' could be 'ordinary' (I've seen this before) and 'ordinary' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'sea' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'finds' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ordinary seaman that I've seen before include "Lowest rank of Royal Navy sailor" , "OS in full" , "Crew member" .)