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Wife and husband give moose seafood (6)

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I believe the answer is:

whelks

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'wife and husband give moose seafood' is the definition.
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'wife and husband give moose' is the wordplay.
'wife' becomes 'w' (abbreviation).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'husband' becomes 'h'.
'give' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'giving' mean this (the letters give the letters for another word)).
'moose' becomes 'elks' (I've seen this before).
'w' after 'h' is 'hw'.
'hw' with letters rearranged gives 'wh'.
'wh'+'elks'='WHELKS'

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(Other definitions for whelks that I've seen before include "Kind of sea snails used as food" , "Marine snails" , "Seasnails" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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