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Male warmonger carrying a fighting-axe (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tomahawk

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

'male warmonger carrying a' is the wordplay.
'male' becomes 'tom' (tom can mean a male cat).
'warmonger' becomes 'hawk' (hawk is a kind of warmonger).
'carrying' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, the bottom letters carry others).
'hawk' put after 'a' is 'ahawk'.
'tom'+'ahawk'='TOMAHAWK'

'fighting' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may belong to another bit of the clue.

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

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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