Sailor has law to break in unrestricted hostility (5,3)
I believe the answer is:
total war
'unrestricted hostility' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.
'sailor has law to break' is the wordplay.
'sailor' becomes 'tar' (tar can mean a sailor).
'has' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'break' indicates an anagram.
'law'+'to'='lawto'
'lawto' anagrammed gives 'otalw'.
'tar' placed around 'otalw' is 'TOTAL WAR'.
'in' acts as a link.
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