The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word BOMBASTIC
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More clues leading to the result BOMBASTIC
- Quickly move wine container, initially impressive, but empty?
- High-flown weapon — nearly a cluster of them?
- Doctor bitten by crow sick at heart and windy
- High-flown sort of duck losing tail — it’s flapping about
- Pompous BBC aims to change
- Pompous article after flop gets lot of criticism
- A shortened cane attached to something blown up, full of hot air
- Pompous crowing involving doctor in charge
- Fail to face a criticism, endlessly huffing and puffing?
- Pompous jerk drove up scholars first
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The straight part
We know that "Pompous" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pompous = bombastic.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BOMBASTIC mean?
BOMBASTIC adjective- (of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
- High-sounding but with little meaning.
- Inflated, overfilled.