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The fathead puts weapons in agricultural holdings (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

farms

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'weapons in agricultural holdings' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'the fathead puts' is the wordplay.
'the fathead' becomes 'f' (head letter of 'fat').
'puts' becomes 'arms' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'f'+'arms'='FARMS'

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for farms that I've seen is " Works the land".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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