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Bring up clip, difficult to understand, showing fish (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pilchard

'fish' is the definition.
(I know that pilchard is a type of clupeid)

'bring up clip difficult to understand' is the wordplay.
'bring up' is a reversal indicator.
'difficult to understand' becomes 'hard' (hard can mean difficult to understand or obscure).
'clip' written backwards gives 'pilc'.
'pilc'+'hard'='PILCHARD'

'showing' is the link.

(Other definitions for pilchard that I've seen before include "Fish of herring family" , "Small sea fish related to the herring" , "'Small fatty fish, usually canned (8)'" , "Small fatty fish, usually tinned" , "type of fish" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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