The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word FANTASIA
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result FANTASIA
- Film buff initially tours continent
- Wonderful work ending for magician in land of huge, huge proportions?
- D made note of mainland conservationists first
- Enthusiast sat back before Gershwin’s penultimate American musical composition
- Musical composition, if a satnav turned volume off
- Enthusiast played it as a free musical composition
- Ardent admirer attends, on the way up, a Disney film
- Ample area of land accommodates new free-form composition
- Enthusiast thanks old country endlessly for classic cartoon
- Aficionado’s time on continent producing free composition
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The straight part
We know that "D made" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case d made = fantasia.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does FANTASIA mean?
FANTASIA noun- A form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics; specifically, one combining a number of well-known musical pieces.
- (by extension) Any work which is unstructured or comprises other works of different genres or styles.
- A traditional festival of the Berbers of the Maghreb (in northwest Africa) featuring exhibitions of horsemanship.