In disorder, lay on spread on Arabian craft (3,3,3)

I believe the answer is:

any old how

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'in disorder' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'lay on spread on arabian craft' is the wordplay.
'spread' indicates anagramming the letters.
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'arabian craft' becomes 'dhow' (dhow is a kind of craft. I am not sure about the 'arabian' bit.**).
'lay'+'on'='layon'
'layon' anagrammed gives 'anyol'.
'anyol'+'dhow'='ANY OLD HOW'

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(Other definitions for any old how that I've seen before include "Without special care" , "disorderly" , "casually" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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