Resolved tidy case involving small strip-tease artist (9)
I believe the answer is:
ecdysiast
'artist' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'resolved tidy case involving small' is the wordplay.
'resolved' indicates anagramming the letters.
'involving' indicates putting letters inside.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'tidy'+'case'='tidycase'
'tidycase' is an anagram of 'ecdysiat'.
'ecdysiat' going around 's' is 'ECDYSIAST'.
'strip-tease' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for ecdysiast that I've seen is " Stripper".)