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Smoke hides new vampire weapon? (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fang

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'vampire weapon?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.

'smoke hides new' is the wordplay.
'smoke' becomes 'fag' (both can mean a cigarette).
'hides' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'fag' enclosing 'n' is 'FANG'.

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(Other definitions for fang that I've seen before include "Animal's sharp tooth" , "Animal tooth" , "Venomous tooth" , "Poisonous tooth" , "Large pointed tooth" .)

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