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Attacked from the air, supplied by skills from the east (7)

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I believe the answer is:

strafed

'attacked from the air' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'supplied by skills from the east' is the wordplay.
'supplied' becomes 'fed' (feeding is a kind of supplying).
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'skills' becomes 'arts' (art can mean a skill or talent).
'from the east' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (on a map from right to left).
'arts' back-to-front is 'stra'.
'fed' put after 'stra' is 'STRAFED'.

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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