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Carrying a little gun does improve one’s disposition (7)

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I believe the answer is:

sweeten

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'improve one's disposition' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'carrying a little gun' is the wordplay.
'carrying' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a little' becomes 'wee' (I've seen this before).
'gun' becomes 'sten' (British sub-machine gun).
'wee' placed inside 'sten' is 'SWEETEN'.

'does' is the link.

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(Other definitions for sweeten that I've seen before include "Make less bitter" , "pacify!" , "Seen wet (anag.)" , "put in sugar" , "Add, eg, sugar to" .)

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