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Good to shave hairy back, twisted or plaited, initially (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

depilatory

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'good to shave' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'hairy back twisted or plaited initially' is the wordplay.
'back' indicates one should take the final letters.
'twisted' indicates anagramming the letters.
'initially' says to put letters next to each other.
The final letter of 'hairy' is 'y'.
'or'+'plaited'='orplaited'
'orplaited' anagrammed gives 'depilator'.
'y' put after 'depilator' is 'DEPILATORY'.

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(Another definition for depilatory that I've seen is " (Product) for removing unwanted hair".)

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