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Britain's entanglement with EU law starts a tense situation (4-5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nail-biter

'a tense situation' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'britain's entanglement with eu law starts' is the wordplay.
'entanglement with' is an anagram indicator.
'starts' says to take the initial letters.
The first letters of 'eu law' is 'el'.
'britain' anagrammed with 'el' gives 'NAIL-BITER'.

(Another definition for nail-biter that I've seen is " One chewing fingers".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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