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Hand over a military medal the Scots give out (5)

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I believe the answer is:

gimme

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'scots give out' is the definition.
The definition suggests a verb in its base form which matches the answer.

'hand over a military medal' is the wordplay.
'hand' becomes 'gie' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'over' is an insertion indicator.
'a military medal' becomes 'mm'.
'gie' placed around 'mm' is 'GIMME'.

'the' is the link.

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(Other definitions for gimme that I've seen before include "Putting piece of cake" , "Reason for unnecessarily putting" , "I rudely demand" , "sitter" , "Hand (it) to me (informal)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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