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Man's team? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

united

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'man's team?' is the definition.
'united' can be an answer for 'team?' (eg Manchester United football club). I am not sure about the 'man's' bit.

'man's team?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'team?' could be 'unit' (team is a kind of unit) and 'unit' is located in the answer.
'man' could be 'ed' (short for Edward) and 'ed' is located in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for united that I've seen before include "Joined together like Manchester soccer team" , "Whole" , "Joined or combined" , "in league" , "Joined together -- in duet (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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