French premier's encounter with American is charged but creates a strong coalition (6)
I believe the answer is:
fusion
'coalition' is the definition.
(I know that coalition can be written as fusion)
'french premier's encounter with american is charged but creates a strong' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'french' could be 'f' (abbreviation) and 'f' is found in the answer.
'american' could be 'us' (United States) and 'us' is located in the answer.
'charged' could be 'ion' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'ion' is found within the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for fusion that I've seen before include "Process of melting together" , "Combination into one" , "Process of melting to join two or more into one" , "Process of coalescence" , "The blending of different things into a whole" .)