Indemnify soldiers before palace revolution (6)
I believe the answer is:
recoup
'indemnify' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'soldiers before palace revolution' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'soldiers' could be 're' (Royal Engineers) and 're' is located in the answer.
'revolution' could be 'coup' (a coup against the state) and 'coup' is found within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for recoup that I've seen before include "Regain, make good" , "recover money" , "Get back one's losses" , "Recover, losses perhaps" , "Get back (outlay)" .)