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Completed taking in broken nets, with fish extricated (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

disentangled

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'extricated' is the definition.
('disentangle' can be a synonym of 'extricate')

'completed taking in broken nets with fish' is the wordplay.
'completed' becomes 'did' (doing is a kind of completing).
'taking in' is an insertion indicator.
'broken nets with' becomes 'sent' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'fish' becomes 'angle' (angling is a kind of fishing).
'sent'+'angle'='sentangle'
'did' going around 'sentangle' is 'DISENTANGLED'.

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