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Shock effect of dishevelled man wearing crumpled suit (7)

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I believe the answer is:

tsunami

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'shock effect' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to natural events as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'dishevelled man wearing crumpled suit' is the wordplay.
'dishevelled' is an anagram indicator.
'wearing' indicates putting letters inside.
'crumpled' indicates anagramming the letters (a crumbled or damaged version of the letters).
'man' with letters rearranged gives 'nam'.
'suit' is an anagram of 'tsui'.
'nam' put into 'tsui' is 'TSUNAMI'.

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for tsunami that I've seen before include "Large ocean wave" , "wall of water" , "Huge wave caused by earth tremor" , ""Harbour wave"" , "High sea wave" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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