English fat guy coming round, showing neglect (9)
I believe the answer is:
desuetude
'round showing neglect' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both states of affairs as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'english fat guy' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'english' could be 'e' (abbreviation) and 'e' is found in the answer.
'fat' could be 'suet' (suet is a kind of fat) and 'suet' is present in the answer.
'guy' could be 'dude' (both can informally mean a man) and 'dude' is found in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'coming' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for desuetude that I've seen before include "abandonment" , "State of inactivity" .)