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Pirates in my ship wanting ventilation (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

corsairs

'pirates' is the definition.
(corsair is a kind of pirate)

'in my ship wanting ventilation' is the wordplay.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'my' becomes 'cor' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'ship' becomes 'ss'.
'wanting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'ventilation' becomes 'air'.
'cor'+'ss'='corss'
'corss' going around 'air' is 'CORSAIRS'.

(Another definition for corsairs that I've seen is " Pirates".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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