US drug agency officer sold drugs (5)
I believe the answer is:
dealt
'sold drugs' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with ownership as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'us drug agency officer' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'drug' could be 'e' (E is another name for ecstasy) and 'e' is present in the answer.
'officer' could be 'lt' (abbreviation for lieutenant) and 'lt' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'da' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dealt that I've seen before include "Distributed playing cards" , "Delta (anag.)" , "Handed out (cards)" , "Doled out" , "Traded" .)