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Conflict with knight brings alert (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

warn

'alert' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'conflict with knight' is the wordplay.
'conflict' becomes 'war' (war is a kind of conflict).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'knight' becomes 'n' (chess abbreviation).
'war'+'n'='WARN'

'brings' is the link.

(Other definitions for warn that I've seen before include "Sound the alarm" , "Give a caution to" , "Admonish, caution" , "Give advance notice to" , "Notify of potential risk" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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