The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MEMORIAL
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More clues leading to the result MEMORIAL
- The writer with message in story about one monument?
- Note heartless opponent finding monument?
- Commemorative dinner, say, to entertain poll organisers
- Foreign currency note found on top of the Cenotaph?
- Statue of Rommel I rebuilt around Alexandria, initially
- Record note on UAE currency
- Intend to take in historic city, climbing large monument
- Record fifty with intent to tour capital on way back
- Reminder one’s given in passing
- Note: Gulf money used to build a monument
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The straight part
We know that "Commemorative" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case commemorative = memorial.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MEMORIAL mean?
MEMORIAL noun- Memory; recollection.
- Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered.
- A chronicle or memoir.
- A note or memorandum.
- A service of remembrance or commemoration.
- A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc.
- Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
- Contained in the memory.
- Mnemonic; assisting the memory.