City's rival solvers entitled to be heard (6)
I believe the answer is:
united
'city's rival' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'solvers entitled to be heard' is the wordplay.
'solvers' becomes 'you' (the person or people solving the crossword).
'entitled' becomes 'knighted' (knighting is a kind of entitling).
'to be heard' shows a homophone (sound like).
'you'+'knighted'='youknighted'
'youknighted' sounds like 'UNITED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for united that I've seen before include "Joined together, allied" , "Affiliated" , "In agreement" , "Allied or combined" , "Allied, standing together" .)