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Something that’s served up route taken at sea? (4,6)

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I believe the answer is:

main course

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'something that's served up' is the definition.
(part of a meal)

'route taken at sea?' is the wordplay.
'route taken' becomes 'course' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'at' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'sea?' becomes 'main' (synonyms).
'course' after 'main' is 'MAIN-COURSE'.

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(Other definitions for main course that I've seen before include "big dish?" , "non-starter?" , "Marine biology, perhaps" , "substantial part of meal" , "sailors find trapping a lot of wind" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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