West Indies poet disturbed about union disaster (4-3)
I believe the answer is:
wipe-out
'disaster' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'west indies poet disturbed about union' is the wordplay.
'west indies' becomes 'wi'.
'disturbed' is an anagram indicator (the order of letters is disturbed).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'union' becomes 'U' (common abbreviation as in 'Trades Union Congress').
'poet' is an anagram of 'peot'.
'peot' placed around 'u' is 'peout'.
'wi'+'peout'='WIPE-OUT'
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