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United Nations to conflict with Germany? That's inconvenient! (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

untoward

'inconvenient' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'united nations to conflict with germany?' is the wordplay.
'united nations' becomes 'un' (synonyms).
'conflict' becomes 'war' (war is a kind of conflict).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'germany?' becomes 'd' (international vehicle registration code).
'un'+'to'+'war'+'d'='UNTOWARD'

'that's' is the link.

(Other definitions for untoward that I've seen before include "vexing" , "Unexpected, inappropriate" , "Adverse - out of the ordinary" , "Inopportune" , "Unfortunate or adverse" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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