The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CALAMARI
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result CALAMARI
- A clam cooked with mostly dry seafood
- Mother runs into French port, mostly for squid
- Swimmers trapped in Ocala marina
- Seafood containing a bit of arm buried in the middle
- To be zoological, a marine constituent?
- Dish of shellfish acquiring a central Paris following
- Damage in French port reduced such seafood
- Much the same as 2, caught malaria travelling
- Squid caught malaria at sea!
- Seafood dish as mum would make, in cooking really inspirational starters
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What does CALAMARI mean?
CALAMARI noun- Squid as food, especially cooked in the form of calamari rings
- Squid, the mollusk, in general