Cruise with a warmonger's axe or missile (8)

I believe the answer is:

tomahawk

'axe or missile' is the definition.
(tomahawk can mean an axe or a cruise missile)

'cruise with a warmonger's' is the wordplay.
'cruise' becomes 'tom' (actor Tom Cruise).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'warmonger' becomes 'hawk' (hawk is a kind of warmonger).
'tom'+'a'+'hawk'='TOMAHAWK'

(Other definitions for tomahawk that I've seen before include "North American Indian hatchet" , "Scalping weapon" , "Native American fighting axe" , "its strike can be fatal" , "Native American war-axe" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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