The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ABRIDGED
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ABRIDGED
- Short notice to include game
- Shortened spanner held in hand, removing odd parts
- Cross that commercial keeps getting cut
- Cut down crossing between Austria and Germany
- Made short work of …
- Cut short promotion about game
- Epitomised by a game against Germany
- Notice about game being shortened
- Clipped dunce’s head with a spanner first
- Shorter game’s interrupted in these days
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The straight part
We know that "cut short" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cut short = abridged.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does ABRIDGED mean?
ABRIDGED verb- To deprive; to cut off.
- To debar from.
- To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
- To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
- Cut short; truncate.
- To curtail.
- Cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.