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Note, explosive danger surrounds it (7)

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I believe the answer is:

grenade

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'note' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.

'explosive danger surrounds it' is the wordplay.
'explosive' is an anagram indicator.
'surrounds' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'it' becomes 'e' ('e' can mean 'electronic' which is similar to 'IT').
'danger' anagrammed gives 'grnade'.
'grnade' placed around 'e' is 'GRENADE'.

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(Other definitions for grenade that I've seen before include "Bomb with a pin" , "Angered (anag)" , "Small bomb thrown by hand" , "Hand-thrown bomb" , "Hand-thrown explosive" .)

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