Deranged Etonian securing university grant without bombast? Sweet! (9)

I believe the answer is:

nougatine

'sweet' is the definition.
(type of sweet)

'deranged etonian securing university grant without bombast?' is the wordplay.
'deranged' indicates anagramming the letters.
'securing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'university' becomes 'u'.
'without' is a deletion indicator.
'bombast?' becomes 'rant' (synonyms).
'u'+'grant'='ugrant'
'ugrant' with 'rant' removed is 'ug'.
'etonian' is an anagram of 'noatine'.
'noatine' enclosing 'ug' is 'NOUGATINE'.

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