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Birthday suit's state untidy, unfortunately (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nudity

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'birthday suit's' is the definition.
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'untidy unfortunately' is the wordplay.
'unfortunately' is an anagram indicator (a bad or unfortunate spelling).
'untidy' with letters rearranged gives 'NUDITY'.

'state' is the link.
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(Other definitions for nudity that I've seen before include "Bareness" , "State of nakedness" , "element of naturism" , "The altogether" , "State of complete undress" .)

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