The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ORMER
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ORMER
- Shell of yellow hue on French sea
- Seafood needing force to get out of mould
- Minor merchant stocking shellfish
- Shell female got rid of in past
- Shellfish for me really encapsulates it!
- Poor merchant stocking shellfish
- Gold-coloured foreign sea shell
- Sea-ear’s first of two with no top
- Long-gone headless sea creature
- Gold French sea shell
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The straight part
We know that "shellfish" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case shellfish = ormer.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ORMER mean?
ORMER noun- An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the Channel Islands.