5 sick in Eastern European port (9)

Independent Cryptic #11956 | 14 Down | 2025-02-03
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A charade of MARS (the Red Planet), and ILL inserted into two Es, one for ‘Eastern’ and one for ‘European’. The insertion indicator is ‘in’. This is the French spelling; some authorities also allow MARSEILLES as an English spelling.

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