The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BOAST
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result BOAST
- Proudly claim vessel carries spades
- Snake on street? Exaggerated statement maybe
- Pride of winners finally seen in Finn?
- Brag about a squash shot
- Something fired up under black crow
- Cat perhaps catching small crow
- Snakes finally eat crow
- Be overly arrogant spouting tripe initially
- Exaggerate delivery in court
- Crow showing feathers close to nest
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The straight part
We know that "Be overly arrogant spouting tripe" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case be overly arrogant spouting tripe = boast.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BOAST mean?
BOAST noun- A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
- Something that one brags about.
- A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
- To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
- To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
- To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
- To play a boast shot.
- To possess something special.
- To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
- (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.