Ladies and gents got ready to strike Avenger (4,5)

I believe the answer is:

john steed

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'ready to strike avenger' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'ladies and gents' is the wordplay.
'ladies' becomes 'steed' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'gents' becomes 'john' (john can informally mean a toilet).
'steed' after 'john' is 'JOHN STEED'.

'got' is the link.

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