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Ally importing revolutionary weapon (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

machete

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'weapon' is the definition.
(machete is a kind of weapon)

'ally importing revolutionary' is the wordplay.
'ally' becomes 'mate' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'importing' is an insertion indicator.
'revolutionary' becomes 'Che' (Che Guevara the Marxist revolutionary).
'mate' enclosing 'che' is 'MACHETE'.

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(Other definitions for machete that I've seen before include "The mace (anag.)" , "Large heavy knife for cutting vegetation" , "Heavy South American knife" , "Jungle chopper" , "Broad heavy knife used in S America" .)

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