The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BREAM
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More clues leading to the result BREAM
- Fish for ray over far end of pier
- Ray biting tail of another fish
- Ray catches river fish
- Look delighted to be swallowing head of raw fish
- Catch bishop suppressing papers
- Swimmer offers resistance in support of gymnast
- Ray gobbling river fish
- Fish from river? Look delighted when catching it
- Fish seems to be right in the light
- Swimmer provided some macabre amusement
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The straight part
We know that "fish" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case fish = bream.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does BREAM mean?
BREAM noun- A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
- A species in that genus, Abramis brama.
- An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
- A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.
- To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.