The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PROUD
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PROUD
- Reminder about university being complacent
- Poke about university, pleased with oneself
- Far from humble urge to include university
- Stuck up circular with no name on page
- Specialist on Underground, extremely pleased with herself
- Expert university head in Durham standing out
- Dig around radioactive metal that’s sticking out
- Poke round centre of pus in swelling
- Poke around top of ugly swelling
- Haughty, staff round university after power
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What does PROUD mean?
PROUD adjective- Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
- Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
- Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
- Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
- (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
- Standing out or raised; swollen.
- Brave, valiant; gallant.
- Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.