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Cut off tail of pollack, food fish served up (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dock

'cut off' is the definition.
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'tail of pollack food fish served up' is the wordplay.
'tail of' says to take the final letters.
'food fish' becomes 'cod' (I've seen this before).
'served up' is a reversal indicator.
The final letter of 'pollack' is 'k'.
'k'+'cod'='kcod'
'kcod' written backwards gives 'DOCK'.

(Other definitions for dock that I've seen before include "Antidote to nettle stings" , "Use this for nettle stings" , "Court enclosure; plant" , "In court, a prisoner stands in it" , "Where the accused stands in court" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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