The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word STARFISH
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result STARFISH
- Supposing Romeo’s turned in hidden treasure to sea dweller
- Spooner’s somewhat quick marine creature
- Fir moved into store that has several arms, mainly
- His raft’s ruffled sea creature
- Celebrity female is accompanying husband, a swimmer
- Marine creature sounds Polish or sticky to some.
- A swimmer has first to get changed
- Sea creature has first to swim
- As seen in the constellation Pisces?
- Heavily armed sea creature wrecked his rafts
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The straight part
We know that "sea dweller" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sea dweller = starfish.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does STARFISH mean?
STARFISH noun- Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
- Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
- A woman who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lays on her back while spreading her limbs.
- (usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.
- To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
- To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.