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Soldier packing a small collection of weapons? (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

arms

'collection of weapons?' is the definition.
(arms can mean weapons)

'soldier packing a small' is the wordplay.
'soldier' becomes 'rm' (Royal Marine).
'packing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'a'+'s'='as'
'rm' put inside 'as' is 'ARMS'.

(Other definitions for arms that I've seen before include "What the Venus de Milo lacks" , "Protesting violently, up in these" , "Weapons and limbs" , "Guns et cetera" , "Ordnance" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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