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Union disorganised by a fuel shortage? (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

uefa

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'fuel shortage?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'union disorganised by a' is the wordplay.
'union' becomes 'U' (common abbreviation as in Trades Union Congress).
'disorganised by' becomes 'ef' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'u'+'ef'+'a'='UEFA'

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(Other definitions for uefa that I've seen before include "Organisers of Champions League" , "Sporting administrator" , "Governing body of soccer in Europe" , "European soccer association" , "Soccer union (abbrev.)" .)

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