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Sailors' chant in typhoon occasionally including surprised cry (2-2-2)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yo-ho-ho

'sailors' chant' is the definition.
(nautical chant)

'typhoon occasionally including surprised cry' is the wordplay.
'occasionally' means one should take alternating letters (letters taken at regular intervals or occasions).
'including' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'surprised cry' becomes 'oho' (I've seen this in another clue).
The alternate letters of 'typhoon' are 'yho'.
'yho' enclosing 'oho' is 'YO-HO-HO'.

'in' is the link.

(Another definition for yo-ho-ho that I've seen is " Old sailors' chant (accompanied by a bottle of rum?)".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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