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Chaotic little dog without lead gets disowned, sadly (6-4)

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I believe the answer is:

upside-down

'chaotic' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'little dog without lead gets disowned sadly' is the wordplay.
'little dog' becomes 'pup' (short for puppy).
'without lead' means to remove the first letter.
'gets' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'sadly' is an anagram indicator.
'pup' with its initial letter removed is 'up'.
'disowned' anagrammed gives 'sidedown'.
'up'+'sidedown'='UPSIDE-DOWN'

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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