Creative artists’ plea for help involving messy gents room for starters! (9)

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songsters

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'creative artists' plea for help involving messy gents room for starters' is the definition.
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'help involving messy gents room for starters' is the wordplay.
'help' becomes 'sos' (emergency abbreviation SOS).
'involving' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'messy' indicates anagramming the letters.
'for starters' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'room' is 'r'.
'gents'+'r'='gentsr'
'gentsr' is an anagram of 'ngster'.
'sos' enclosing 'ngster' is 'SONGSTERS'.

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I've seen this clue in The Hindu.

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