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Friend with strange ideas for defensive structure (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

palisade

'defensive structure' is the definition.
(palisade is a kind of defensive structure)

'friend with strange ideas' is the wordplay.
'friend' becomes 'pal' (pal is a kind of friend**).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'strange' indicates anagramming the letters.
'ideas' is an anagram of 'isade'.
'pal'+'isade'='PALISADE'

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for palisade that I've seen before include "defence work" , "fencing" , "Fence consisting of stakes" , "Fence of wooden stakes" , "Enclosure of stakes" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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