The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word FUSED
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result FUSED
- Suffered electrical failure, with potential to blow up?
- Joined female taken advantage of
- Blended in a stew half-heartedly
- Half-heartedly worried about having a safety device
- Joined together by force applied
- United force American-English defender at the outset
- United take advantage of having cut through Fulham defenders initially
- Combined force employed
- Combined force, not new
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The straight part
We know that "United" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case united = fused.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does FUSED mean?
FUSED verb- To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
- To melt together.
- To furnish with or install a fuse.
- To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings
- Joined together by fusing
- Melted
- Furnished with a fuse
- Having at least one bond between two atoms that is part of two or more separate rings