### Clue: Guardian editor returned with electric guitar (8)
### Answer: DEFENDER 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Guardian
 **Reversal of**(… returned) ED(abbrev. for "editor") **plus**(with) FENDER(short for an electric guitar made by Fender, an American manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers).
Defn: …/one who has been assigned to guard something.