The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word PROFLIGATE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PROFLIGATE
- Dissolute academic at contest, losing it
- Wasteful academic delayed welcoming soldier back
- Spendthrift set get 23 24 with 50% off
- Dissolute scholar, learner I punish at college
- Wildly extravagant design of fragile pot
- Fragile pot damaged with rake
- Debauched academic to get tied up
- Pet of a girl, perhaps, but recklessly extravagant
- Extravagant tip a golfer developed
- Debauched scholar, student I confine to college grounds
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The straight part
We know that "Wildly extravagant" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case wildly extravagant = profligate.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PROFLIGATE mean?
PROFLIGATE noun- An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
- An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
- To drive away; to overcome.
- Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
- Immoral; abandoned to vice.
- Overthrown, ruined.