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Military engineer receives credit as fighter (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scrapper

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'fighter' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'military engineer receives credit' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'credit' could be 'cr' and 'cr' is present in the answer.
'engineer' could be 'sapper' (sapper is a kind of engineer) and 'sapper' is present in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'as' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for scrapper that I've seen before include "An informal fighter, or one who discards waste" , "someone fighting" , "Boxer" , "I get shot of something" , "An informal fighter - sounds ragged" .)

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