The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word EMBARRASS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result EMBARRASS
- Make red curtain to separate eastern doctors
- Show up with energy Mars Bars produced
- Humiliate Hebridean island in terrible mess
- Shame lawyers stopping terrible smears
- Doctor bears arms -- shame!
- Worried bare arms should start to cause consternation
- Letter to Scottish island by ship to cause discomfort
- Oriental mob outside blockade starting to roar in distress
- I back Representative Bob and fool to get Red
- Criminal bears arms? Shame
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What does EMBARRASS mean?
EMBARRASS verb- To humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash
- To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
- To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.