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Seafood swindle requires private investigator (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scampi

'seafood' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'swindle requires private investigator' is the wordplay.
'swindle' becomes 'scam' (scam is a kind of swindle).
'requires' says to put letters next to each other.
'private investigator' becomes 'pi' ('PI' can be a synonym of 'private investigator').
'scam'+'pi'='SCAMPI'

(Other definitions for scampi that I've seen before include "Crumbed prawns" , "Breaded prawns" , "sort of seafood" , "Norway lobsters -- Dublin Bay prawns" , "Fried seafood" .)

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