### Clue: Cleaner forced to go topless in absurd act (7)
### Answer: CHARADE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: absurd act
 CHAR(short for a charwoman, a lady who cleans homes or offices) + "made"(forced;with no choice) ***minus its 1st letter***(… to go topless, in a down clue).
Defn: A patently false representation;a travesty.