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English fat guy coming round, showing neglect (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

desuetude

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'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.

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(Other definitions for desuetude that I've seen before include "abandonment" , "State of inactivity" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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