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Handle
of
shortened
rifle
concealed
by
jacket
from
tracksuit
(8)
Handle of shortened rifle concealed by jacket from tracksuit (8)
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The definition is at the beginning of the clue.
How the clue works
The definition is Handle, in the sense of dealing with something. RANSACK (meaning to rifle through) gets shortened to RANSAC, and then that's concealed inside the outer "jacket" letters of tracksuit — the T at the start and T at the end — wrapping round to give you T-RANSAC-T.