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Sailor whose crime is serious (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sinbad

'sailor' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'crime is serious' is the wordplay.
'crime' becomes 'sin'.
'is serious' becomes 'bad' (I've seen this in other clues).
'sin'+'bad'='SINBAD'

'whose' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for sinbad that I've seen before include "The 1001 Nights sailor" , "Literary sailor" , "Sailor of The thousand-and-one Nights" , "Adventurous sailor of Arabian Nights or pantomime" , "Legendary sailor from Arabian nights" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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