The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LURID
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More clues leading to the result LURID
- Sensational start to lecture union leader delivered
- Gloomily threatening fish is, on reflection, removed
- Brightly coloured hat? We hear you are wearing that
- Rugby union back in top that’s garish
- Free to follow opening in London University? Sensational
- Oddly Lou Reed’s drug free, touring India – it’s brilliant
- Shockingly vivid sources of light under grid no good
- Sensational line, universal and clear
- Ghastly sheatfish etc released from sea I set free
- Sensationalist cover, in which solver is in text
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The straight part
We know that "Glaringly bright" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case glaringly bright = lurid.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LURID mean?
LURID adjective- Shocking, horrifying.
- Melodramatic.
- Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
- Being of a light yellow hue.
- Having a brown colour tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
- Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.