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Take a piece from organisation with a return address (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

unarm

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'take a piece from' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'organisation with a return address' is the wordplay.
'organisation' becomes 'UN' (UN is an example).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'a return address' becomes 'arm' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'un'+'arm'='UNARM'

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(Other definitions for unarm that I've seen before include "Remove weaponry from" , "Deprive of a weapon" , "Remove weapons from" , "Deactivate" , "Remove firing pieces" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and The Irish Times.
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