The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word EXCESSIVE
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More clues leading to the result EXCESSIVE
- Immoderate vices enlivened with sex close to bedtime
- Too much sex service right away is wrong
- Former partner runs from devilish services – that’s too much
- Immoderate vice, with sexes mixing
- Essex vice? Possibly getting high
- Vivid fringes of poplar succumb to cold beyond the norm
- Too much for one-time tax? That's describing VAT, basically!
- Unrestrained old tax including VAT exterminated, basically
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The straight part
We know that "Immoderate" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case immoderate = excessive.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does EXCESSIVE mean?
EXCESSIVE adjective- Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.