Sailors at sea head of editorials put in The Sun (8)

I believe the answer is:

solarise

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'sun' is the definition.
(I know that sun can be written as solarise)

'sailors at sea head of editorials' is the wordplay.
'at sea' is an anagram indicator.
'head of' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'editorials' is 'e'.
'sailors' is an anagram of 'solaris'.
'solaris'+'e'='SOLARISE'

'put in the' is the link.
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I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times and The Times.

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