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Seal hunter's boat, after high water, set off (5,5,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

great white shark

'seal hunter's' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'boat after high water set off' is the wordplay.
'boat' becomes 'ark' (ark is a kind of boat).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'off' is an anagram indicator.
'high'+'water'+'set'='highwaterset'
'highwaterset' with letters rearranged gives 'greatwhitesh'.
'ark' after 'greatwhitesh' is 'GREAT WHITE SHARK'.

(Another definition for great white shark that I've seen is " Fish".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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