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Weed solution includes ammunition (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

groundsel

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'weed' is the definition.
(I know that groundsel is a type of weed)

'solution includes ammunition' is the wordplay.
'solution' becomes 'gel' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'includes' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ammunition' becomes 'rounds' (I've seen this before).
'gel' going around 'rounds' is 'GROUNDSEL'.

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(Other definitions for groundsel that I've seen before include "Common weed" , "Plant of daisy family" , "feed to the birds" , "plant, unwanted?" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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