Seized weapons from enigmatic leader during Madrid's unrest (8)
I believe the answer is:
disarmed
'seized weapons' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I cannot see how one could define the other.
'enigmatic leader during madrid's unrest' is the wordplay.
'leader' suggests taking the first letters.
'during' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'unrest' is an anagram indicator.
The initial letter of 'enigmatic' is 'e'.
'madrids' with letters rearranged gives 'disarmd'.
'e' placed into 'disarmd' is 'DISARMED'.
'from' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for disarmed that I've seen before include "Removed the fuse from a bomb" , "Took away weapons" .)