The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SATIRICAL
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More clues leading to the result SATIRICAL
- Mocking learner after Day One — car breaks down around lunchtime
- Ridiculing pathetic racialist
- Humorously critical, yet possibly racialist
- Mocking idiotic racialist
- Like The Onion, CIA trials collapsed
- It’s racial in the guise of irreverent
- Style of humour that could become racialist
- Ridiculing poor trails about London gallery
- Mocking island state involved in sham trials
- Dean's works are so absurdly racialist
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The straight part
We know that "Like The Onion/The Onion" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case like the onion/the onion = satirical.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SATIRICAL mean?
SATIRICAL adjective- Of, pertaining to or connected with satire