Decoration though denied second top award in pageantry (4)

Independent Cryptic #11930 | 24 Down | 2025-01-03
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

POMP OM (decoration) excluding (denied) the second occurrence of [second] OM (Order of Merit; a top award)

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