The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word VENETIAN
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result VENETIAN
- An Italian vehicle, one with pains once getting doubled up inside
- Blind drunk in event one’s opening?
- Citizen’s native ground – around the northeast
- Like many a blind Italian
- Italian native travelling around outskirts of Nice
- An event I organised for Casanova, say
- An event organized to welcome Italy’s gondolier?
- Type of Italian European to catch one in covered vehicle
- Blind Italian?
- Native of Italy is perhaps blind
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