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Weakling has fight to cut into fish (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

coward

'weakling' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'fight to cut into fish' is the wordplay.
'fight' becomes 'war' (warring is a kind of fighting).
'to cut into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'fish' becomes 'cod' (type of fish).
'war' put into 'cod' is 'COWARD'.

'has' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for coward that I've seen before include "Person who is deficient in courage" , "Gutless type" , "Chicken" , "Theatrical fellow" , "Yellow-belly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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