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Warning from victim pierced by arrow perhaps (10)

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precursory

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'warning' is the definition.
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'victim pierced by arrow perhaps' is the wordplay.
'victim' becomes 'prey' (prey is a kind of victim).
'pierced by' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters pierce a hole in others).
'arrow perhaps' becomes 'cursor' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'prey' enclosing 'cursor' is 'PRECURSORY'.

'from' is the link.

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(Another definition for precursory that I've seen is " Serving to introduce".)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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