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Allegation from conservative Americans in lawsuit (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

accusation

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'allegation' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'conservative americans in lawsuit' is the wordplay.
'conservative' becomes 'C' (UK political abbreviation).
'americans' becomes 'usa' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'lawsuit' becomes 'action' (synonyms).
'c'+'usa'='cusa'
'cusa' inserted into 'action' is 'ACCUSATION'.

'from' is the link.

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(Other definitions for accusation that I've seen before include "Complaint" , "Charge" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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