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The way the navy takes to journalism? (5,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fleet street

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'the way' is the definition.
(Fleet Street is an example)

'navy takes to journalism?' is the wordplay.
'navy' becomes 'fleet' (I've seen this before).
'takes' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'to journalism?' becomes 'street' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'fleet'+'street'='FLEET STREET'

'the' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for fleet street that I've seen before include "British national newspaper journalism" , "Original home of London's press" , "Old London newspaper centre" , "Old home of newspapers" , "the papers" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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