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Gun-toting adolescent in resort (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yarmouth

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

'gun-toting adolescent in' is the wordplay.
'gun-toting' becomes 'arm' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'adolescent' becomes 'youth' (I've seen this before).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'arm' inserted into 'youth' is 'YARMOUTH'.

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(Other definitions for yarmouth that I've seen before include "IOW resort" , "Peggotty's port (Norfolk)" , "holiday resort" , "27 [ISLAND] town" , "Norfolk resort" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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