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Give guns to Rashid to bag large ordinary animal (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

armadillo

'animal' is the definition.
(armadillo is a kind of animal)

'give guns to rashid to bag large ordinary' is the wordplay.
'give guns to' becomes 'arm' (to arm is to equip with weapons).
'rashid' becomes 'Adil' (cricketer Adil Rashid).
'to bag' indicates putting letters inside.
'large' becomes 'L' (eg in clothes sizes).
'ordinary' becomes 'O' (abbreviation e.g. O-Levels).
'adil' enclosing 'l' is 'adill'.
'arm'+'adill'+'o'='ARMADILLO'

(Other definitions for armadillo that I've seen before include "Small burrowing S American animal covered with bony plates" , "9ed [SHELLED] beast" , "mammal that has claws" , "Bony-plated mammal" , "Toothless Native American" .)

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