Ancient weapon with which a Scottish detective protects Queen (8)

Guardian Cryptic #29798 | 13 Down | 2025-09-12
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

insertion of QU (queen) in A (from the clue) REBUS (Scottish detective – series from Ian Rankin) for what was an early gun , apparently, another jorum for me.

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