| Conceived on an imposing or ambitious style |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
10 Aug 2025 |
| Over-the-top, and badly organised (9) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
29 Jul 2025 |
| Impressive road sign wrongly depicted closing of lane (9) |
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| Lofty-sounding organ dies away (9) |
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| Showy elderly relative does initially impressive cartwheels |
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| Wildly pompous |
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| Pretentiously imposing |
The Times Concise |
24 Apr 2025 |
| Ostentatious renovations organised (9) |
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| Ostentatiously splendid (9) |
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| Pretentious side-organ (9) |
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| Extravagant, pompous |
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| Pretentiously grand or stately (9) |
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| More elaborate than necessary (EDISON RAG anagram) (9) |
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| ... or a design on a magnificent scale (9) |
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| Pretentious, pompous (9) |
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| Overly large or showy (9) |
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| Bombastic relative given bishopric with no church |
The Telegraph Toughie |
16 Jan 2025 |
| Imposing and pretentious (9) |
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| Elaborate raid's gone haywire (9) |
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| Unusually organised something imposing (9) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
27 Nov 2024 |
| Organised in pompous fashion (9) |
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| Organised criminal is impressive |
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| Pretentiously imposing - organised (anag) (9) |
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| Noble ignored, as vulgar |
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| Overly majestic |
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| Impressive drain goes wrong (9) |
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| Impressive or meant to impress (9) |
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| So little Eric gets daring and becomes bombastic |
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| Overly elaborate |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Jun 2024 |
| Organised (anag.) |
The Telegraph Quick |
31 May 2024 |
| Pretentiously stately (9) |
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| August the first on road in San Diego on tour? (9) |
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| Pretentiously splendid (9) |
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| So reading is high-sounding (9) |
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| Much-hyped raid's gone wrong |
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| Pretentious, ostentatious (9) |
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| Flamboyant |
Commuter |
05 Jan 2024 |
| Surprising grade in, so impressive |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
18 Dec 2023 |
| Adores gin drunk with extravagance |
The Guardian Cryptic |
14 Dec 2023 |
| Adores gin drunk with extravagance (9) |
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| Ignore ads: terribly pompous |
The Guardian Cryptic |
07 Jun 2022 |
| Good broadcasters entertaining northern Spain in August |
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| Reading so liberally is quite pretentious |
The Guardian Cryptic |
28 Feb 2022 |
| Reading so liberally is quite pretentious |
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| Epic ego is out to steal foreign money |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 May 2021 |
| 'Thousand moons' — direction is awe-inspiring |
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| Pompous matriarch composed odes when touring India |
The Telegraph Toughie |
13 Jan 2021 |
| Impressive broadcast organised |
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| Work ignored, as striking |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Oct 2020 |
| Bash organised for pretentious |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Sep 2020 |
| Exaggeratedly impressive |
Universal |
11 Jul 2020 |
| Impressive, magnificent |
The Times Concise |
08 Jul 2020 |
| Organised manoeuvres, impressive |
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| Pretentiously inflated |
Universal |
13 May 2020 |
| Organised sloppily, but magnificent! |
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| Organised — organised something extravagant |
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| Bombastic |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 Feb 2018 |
| Bombastic bully adores gin |
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| Impressive cryptic grid's A-one |
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| A do singer ruined being bombastic |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Nov 2015 |
| Magnificent region, sad to undergo redevelopment |
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| Relative measure taken to shackle Italian leader, as pompous |
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| Relative amount, one claimed, impressive |
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| More elaborate than necessary |
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| Extravagant |
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| Flamboyant |
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| Pompous |
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| Affectedly splendid. |
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| Pompous and showy. |
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| Impressive. |
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| Imposing. |
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| Pompous. |
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