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Penguin, say, right behind blue ship at sea (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

publisher

'penguin say' is the definition.
(I know that Penguin Books is a publisher)

'right behind blue ship at sea' is the wordplay.
'right' becomes 'r' (abbreviation).
'behind' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'at sea' indicates an anagram.
'blue'+'ship'='blueship'
'blueship' is an anagram of 'publishe'.
'r' put after 'publishe' is 'PUBLISHER'.

(Other definitions for publisher that I've seen before include "bookmaker!" , "damned by a duke" , "Eg Jonathan Cape or Hamish Hamilton" , "House of books" , "Man with many titles" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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