The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 plus 2 plus 6 letter word OUT OF BREATH
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More clues leading to the result OUT OF BREATH
- Producing pants soldiers must wear having just finished washing?
- No longer washing oneself, standing round about, panting
- Panting, about to engage in towelling oneself down?
- One may get bather thus exhausted
- Thus pants about to go in having just finished washing
- How one might make the bar, panting
- After fashioning fur boot, hate making pants
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Panting" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case panting = out of breath.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.