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Wound exposed on front of shark (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

snaked

'wound' is the definition.
(snake can mean to wind around like a snake)

'exposed on front of shark' is the wordplay.
'exposed' becomes 'naked' (exposed can mean undressed).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'front of' indicates taking the first letters (the letter at the front of the word).
The first letter of 'shark' is 's'.
'naked' after 's' is 'SNAKED'.

(Another definition for snaked that I've seen is " wound".)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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