The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word CRUSTACEAN
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More clues leading to the result CRUSTACEAN
- Marine creature covering a marine area, nothing less
- Can curates cut up a lobster?
- Tuna scarce? Switch to crab, perhaps
- Cracking nut, a scarce thing with a shell?
- A nut: with scarce bother, it’s shelled
- Stew of scarce tuna and lobster?
- Lobster perhaps reddish-brown: serve in tin
- Hermit‘s expert article on living?
- Can’t care about eating American lobster perhaps?
- Corrosion on one tin containing shrimp, say
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The straight part
We know that "lobster" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case lobster = crustacean.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CRUSTACEAN mean?
CRUSTACEAN noun- Any arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles and woodlice.