“In recent years we have been served up a lot of ____ about the need for a national identity. We have been urged to sing imbecile jingles …” (Patrick White) Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue “In recent years we have been served up a lot of ____ about the need for a national identity. We have been urged to sing imbecile jingles …” (Patrick White) last seen in Times Specialist Sunday puzzle. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 8 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is CLAPTRAP.

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Crossword Answer For “In recent years we have been served up a lot of ____ about the need for a national identity. We have been urged to sing imbecile jingles …” (Patrick White):

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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% CLAPTRAP “In recent years we have been served up a lot of ____ about the need for a national identity. We have been urged to sing imbecile jingles …” (Patrick White) (8) The Times Specialist Sunday Sep 18, 2022
6% STUBBEDTOES They may recently have been in a jam (11) New York Times Dec 19, 2025
6% YES "__, We Have No Bananas" (3) Commuter Nov 14, 2025
6% HAS "It ___ been a year!" (3) USA Today Oct 11, 2025
5% ENGLISHSETTER Dog gets in shelter, having been disturbed (13) The Times Quick Cryptic Dec 5, 2025
5% ARBYS "We have the meats" sloganeer (5) New York Times Dec 2, 2025
5% ALIBI Plea of having been elsewhere (5) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic Dec 1, 2025
5% TMI "We didn't have to know that!" (3) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic Nov 22, 2025
5% HOW "That shouldn't have been possible!" (3) LA Times Daily Nov 19, 2025
5% OWED Now editors have to have been obliged (4) (4) Mirror Cryptic Nov 11, 2025

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