The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word COLOSSAL
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result COLOSSAL
- Tremendous destruction inside burner
- Vast financial deficit in output from colliery
- Deficit in fuel is massive
- Enormous deficiency in fossil fuel
- Huge detriment involved in fossil fuel
- Huge deficit in fossil fuel
- Massive column with rope around
- Extremely large reduction in fuel that’s consumed
- Enormous deficit in solid fuel
- Big drop into the black stuff
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The straight part
We know that "Big/Big" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case big/big = colossal.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does COLOSSAL mean?
COLOSSAL adjective- Extremely large or on a great scale.