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Increasingly blunt head of state revealing all (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

starkers

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'revealing all' is the definition.
(informal term for naked)

'increasingly blunt head of state' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'state' could be 'ark' (I've seen this before) and 'ark' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for starkers that I've seen before include "23 [NUDIST]" , "Slangily nude - starts being stellar" , "Wearing no clothes" , "in his birthday suit?" , "in the buff" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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