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Succeed with fish: around ten caught (5)

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I believe the answer is:

excel

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

'fish around ten caught' is the wordplay.
'fish' becomes 'eel' (eel is a kind of fish).
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'ten' becomes 'x' (roman numeral).
'caught' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation).
'x'+'c'='xc'
'eel' going around 'xc' is 'EXCEL'.

'with' is the link.

(Other definitions for excel that I've seen before include "Do superbly well" , "Do better than, give great performance" , "well above average" , "Eclipse" , "Be very good at, better than others" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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