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Is it a draw at the marine exhibition? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

tugboat

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'is it a' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'draw at the marine exhibition?' is the wordplay.
'draw' becomes 'tug' (tugging is a kind of drawing).
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the marine exhibition?' becomes 'boat' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'tug'+'boat'='TUGBOAT'

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(Other definitions for tugboat that I've seen before include "Powerful vessel used to pull larger ones" , "Ship pulling a larger one" , "Vessel towing larger vessels" , "Drawing craft" , "Vessel drawing" .)

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