Anglo Saxon holding a broken gun and seeming Scottish (5)
I believe the answer is:
angus
'seeming scottish' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how they can define each other.
'anglo saxon holding a broken gun' is the wordplay.
'anglo saxon' becomes 'as' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'holding' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a broken' is an anagram indicator.
'gun' with letters rearranged gives 'ngu'.
'as' going around 'ngu' is 'ANGUS'.
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for angus that I've seen before include "Steer" , "Scots man's name" , "A snug breed from Aberdeen" , "man" , "Former Scottish county" .)