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Speed of ships on loch (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fleetness

'speed' is the definition.
(fleetness is a kind of speed)

'ships on loch' is the wordplay.
'ships' becomes 'fleet' (eg a naval fleet).
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'loch' becomes 'ness' (Loch Ness in Scotland).
'fleet'+'ness'='FLEETNESS'

'of' is the link.

(Another definition for fleetness that I've seen is " Swiftness, speed".)

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