The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word PANTOMIME
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More clues leading to the result PANTOMIME
- Criticise the writer's book covers as dumb entertainment
- Criticise book that’s eclipsed the writer’s play
- To pretend to sing on track for show
- Severely criticise having old theatrical technique propping up Travers’ earliest farce
- Show main tempo needs changing
- Show to Monsieur the writer’s glass pens
- Criticise the piper's son and me after one show
- Cat I’m displaying in shop window perhaps: Puss in Boots?
- Play for time, no map being wrong
- Seasonal entertainment broadcast of a young male at home, possibly around 9?
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The straight part
We know that "Farcical situation" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case farcical situation = pantomime.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PANTOMIME mean?
PANTOMIME noun- A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime.
- The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work.
- A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, call and response, and fairy-tale plots.
- Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime.
- To make (a gesture) without speaking.
- To entertain others by silent gestures or actions.