Inelegant start to Texan oil drama rubbished (9)
I believe the answer is:
maladroit
'inelegant' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'start to texan oil drama rubbished' is the wordplay.
'start to' indicates taking the first letters.
'rubbished' indicates an anagram.
The first letter of 'texan' is 't'.
't'+'oil'+'drama'='toildrama'
'toildrama' is an anagram of 'MALADROIT'.
(Other definitions for maladroit that I've seen before include "Inefficient, clumsy" , "Inept, clumsy" , "Clumsy or bungling, ham-fisted" , "Awkward - unskilful" .)