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Confused pigtail with balder style (7)

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I believe the answer is:

garbled

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'confused' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'pigtail with balder style' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'balder' is 'arbled' which is present in the answer.
A single letter 'g' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for garbled that I've seen before include "Mixed-up" , "(Message) corrupted" , "Unintentionally jumbled" , "Disjointed, incoherent" , "Confused, disjointed" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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