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Wound in a sea fish (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

reeled

'wound' is the definition.
(reeling is a kind of winding)

'in a sea fish' is the wordplay.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a sea' becomes 'red'.
'fish' becomes 'eel' (eel is a kind of fish**).
'red' going around 'eel' is 'REELED'.

(Other definitions for reeled that I've seen before include "Danced; staggered" , "Staggered in a dance perhaps" , "Staggered or tottered" , "swam around" , "Lurched" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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