### Clue: Hit hard — huge anticlimax (6)
### Answer: BATHOS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: anticlimax
 BAT(to hit, with, well, a bat) + H(abbrev. for "hard") + OS(abbrev. for "oversize"/huge).
Defn: … created by an unintentional change in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.