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In concert, playing duet with flipping hot content (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

united

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'in concert' is the definition.
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'playing duet with flipping hot content' is the wordplay.
'playing' is an anagram indicator.
'with' is an insertion indicator.
'flipping' is a reversal indicator.
'hot content' becomes 'in' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' backwards is 'ni'.
'duet' with letters rearranged gives 'uted'.
'uted' enclosing 'ni' is 'UNITED'.

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(Other definitions for united that I've seen before include "See 1" , "Joined into a single entity" , "Joined together, allied" , "... we stand, divided we fall" , "joined with others" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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