Cancelled national university leagues? Provided that’s disinfected primarily (9)
I believe the answer is:
nullified
'cancelled' is the definition.
(nullifying is a kind of cancelling)
'national university leagues? provided that's disinfected primarily' is the wordplay.
'national university leagues?' becomes 'null' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'provided' becomes 'if' (eg 'provided it's sunny' means 'if it's sunny').
'that's' becomes 'ie'.
'primarily' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'disinfected' is 'd'.
'null'+'if'+'ie'+'d'='NULLIFIED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for nullified that I've seen before include "revoked" , "Abrogated" , "Cancelled out" , "Made invalid" , "Scrubbed" .)