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Take
flight,
carrying
Charlie,
following
sea
transportation
issue
(7)
Take flight, carrying Charlie, following sea transportation issue (7)
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How the clue works
Right, so issue is your definition there - a subject or topic. Now for the wordplay: start with SUB, that's your sea transportation (a submarine, obviously). Then you need JET for "take flight", but it's carrying C inside it - that's Charlie in the phonetic alphabet - so JET becomes JE-C-T. Stick SUB in front of that lot and you've got your answer.