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Where to do badly on the wild seas (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

odessa

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'where' is the definition.
The answer is a location as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'do badly on the wild seas' is the wordplay.
'badly' indicates an anagram.
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the wild' is an anagram indicator.
'do' anagrammed gives 'od'.
'seas' is an anagram of 'essa'.
'od'+'essa'='ODESSA'

'to' is the link.

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(Other definitions for odessa that I've seen before include "Battleship Potemkin mutiny port" , "Black Sea location" , "Ukrainian Black Sea port" , "Do seas come into Ukrainian city?" , "Ukrainian naval base" .)

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