Criminal attacks middle of fort - soldiers potentially rest here (5,4)
I believe the answer is:
toast rack
'soldiers potentially rest here' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.
'criminal attacks middle of fort' is the wordplay.
'criminal' is an anagram indicator.
'middle of' says to take the centre.
The middle of 'fort' is 'or'.
'attacks'+'or'='attacksor'
'attacksor' is an anagram of 'TOAST-RACK'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for toast rack that I've seen is " kitchen item".)