The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PUFF
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More clues leading to the result PUFF
- Draw on exaggerated promotion
- … turn up with very loud promotion
- Dragon breath
- Breathe out repeatedly making child’s engine for 1
- Advertisement‘s turned up very loud
- One female after another in revolt over advertisement
- Advertisement for the supernatural monster?
- Advertisement appearing in The Express?
- Bird pulling in publicity
- Extravagant advertisement for pastry
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The straight part
We know that "advertisement" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case advertisement = puff.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PUFF mean?
PUFF noun- The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind.
- A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
- A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
- The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
- A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
- A sudden gust.
- An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
- A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
- A puffer, one who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up the price; an act or scam of that type.
- A puffball.
- A powder puff.
- The drug cannabis.
- A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
- Life.
- A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
- A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
- To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
- To pant.
- To advertise.
- To blow as an expression of scorn.
- To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
- To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
- To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
- To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
- To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
- To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
- To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.