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Article craftily ignoring Liberal chaos (7)

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I believe the answer is:

anarchy

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'chaos' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'article craftily' is the wordplay.
'article' becomes 'an' (indefinite article).
'craftily' becomes 'archy' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'an'+'archy'='ANARCHY'

'ignoring liberal' is the link.
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(Other definitions for anarchy that I've seen before include "State of lawlessness and disorder" , "Chaotic state" , "Complete absence of law" , "without structure" , "Utter lawlessness" .)

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