Bombastic |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Aug 2025 |
Overblown; inflated (6) |
Puzzler |
27 May 2025 |
Swollen, bombastic |
Puzzler Backwords |
29 Apr 2025 |
Inflated working group overseeing reconstructed grid (6) |
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Pompous way to turn, almost, and dig it up (6) |
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Put back excavation by ditch that's swollen (6) |
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Distended, swollen (6) |
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Bombastic drug - it treats the distended (6) |
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Swollen, bombastic |
Puzzler Backwords |
28 Apr 2024 |
Excavate channel backwards, being pompous |
Mirror Cryptic |
26 Apr 2024 |
Swollen |
Mirror Quick |
26 Apr 2024 |
Swollen gut I'd suspect? About right (6) |
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Pompous trade union convenor lately retracted cutting remark (6) |
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Bombastic |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Mar 2023 |
Overblown |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Jul 2022 |
Sounding important but meaning very little |
Irish Times Simplex |
02 Mar 2022 |
Bloated or bombastic |
Irish Times Simplex |
07 Dec 2020 |
Congested excavation channel turned over |
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Swollen and distended |
Premier Sunday |
20 Oct 2019 |
Pompous, inflated |
Irish Times Simplex |
02 Jul 2019 |
Swollen; pompous |
The Times Concise |
04 Jun 2019 |
Swollen |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Dec 2018 |
Windy US soldier dropping trousers |
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Turned up to make ditch flowery |
The Telegraph Toughie |
26 Jan 2018 |
Tediously pompous |
The Times Concise |
25 Jan 2018 |
Drag around reading papers by tediously pompous type |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Dec 2016 |
Plough furrow backwards, becoming swollen |
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Tenor from old city to dig up what's tediously pompous |
Irish Times Crosaire |
24 Dec 2015 |
Swollen gut? I'd fancy that's about right |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Dec 2015 |
Overblown |
Eugene Sheffer |
22 Sep 2015 |
Plough furrow on the reverse — it's not exciting |
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Swollen |
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Swollen |
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Distended |
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Grandiloquent |
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Bombastic |
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Swollen |
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Bombastic |
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Swollen |
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Swollen |
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Overblown |
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Pompous |
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Swollen |
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Swollen. |
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Bombastic. |
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