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Suspicious swimmer by end of quay (5)

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I believe the answer is:

fishy

'suspicious' is the definition.
(I know that suspicious can be written as fishy)

'swimmer by end of quay' is the wordplay.
'swimmer' becomes 'fish' (fish swim).
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'end of' suggests the final letters.
The last letter of 'quay' is 'y'.
'fish'+'y'='FISHY'

(Other definitions for fishy that I've seen before include "As smelt, perhaps" , "Dodgy, suspicious" , "Arousing suspicion" , "Suspicious (as trout?)" , "Ray is so" .)

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