Flagrant European aspect in Shakespeare? (9)
I believe the answer is:
barefaced
'flagrant' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'european aspect in shakespeare?' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'aspect' becomes 'face' (side of a building).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'shakespeare?' becomes 'bard' (I've seen this before).
'e'+'face'='eface'
'eface' placed within 'bard' is 'BAREFACED'.
(Other definitions for barefaced that I've seen before include "Bold" , "Shameless like liar, having shaven visage" , "having just had a close shave" , "Unshaven kind of blatant liar" , "Shameless or not bearded" .)