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Clue no. 5: Bizarre thief alarms her, not a man, a sea creature (6-6)

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A clue to FATHER-LASHER.
4 comments refer to this clue (from 4 competitors, 0 others)

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Comments on the clue
1.Wordplay doesn't quite work (not one man might be accurate). Would a sea-creature be a thief?
2.Difficult to picture this!
3.Findng a synonym of ‘a’, taking that from ‘man’, and then taking the remainder from the anagram is too convoluted.
4.a=i and m=man both inaccurate