Reasonable to protect soldiers from small country (3,8)
I believe the answer is:
san marinese
'small country' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are adjectives, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'reasonable to protect soldiers' is the wordplay.
'reasonable' becomes 'sane' (similar in meaning).
'to protect' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters are protected or taken in).
'soldiers' becomes 'marines' (I've seen this before).
'sane' enclosing 'marines' is 'SAN MARINESE'.
'from' is the link.
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