Boast supplied by Democratic supporters? (5)
I believe the answer is:
crowd
'boast supplied by democratic supporters?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'boast supplied by democratic' is the wordplay.
'boast' becomes 'crow' (to crow about something is to boast about it).
'supplied by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'democratic' becomes 'd' (political abbreviation).
'crow'+'d'='CROWD'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for crowd that I've seen before include "Large number of people gathered together" , "Large group of people" , "Large number of people in one place" , "Army" , "Masses" .)