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Welsh parliamentarian has way of working material for attack (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ammo

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'material for attack' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.

'welsh parliamentarian has way of working' is the wordplay.
'welsh parliamentarian has' becomes 'am' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'way of working' becomes 'mo' (modus operandi).
'am'+'mo'='AMMO'

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(Other definitions for ammo that I've seen before include "What's fired from a gun (abbr)" , "arms" , "Bullets (abbrev.)" , "Bullets etc.(informal)" , "Shot" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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