Cryptic crossword clue
Deals – that is, provided wind returns 8

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word TRAFFICS

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The straight part
We know that "Deals" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case deals = traffics.
The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TRAFFICS mean?

TRAFFICS noun
  1. Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
  2. Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
  3. Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
  4. Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
  5. Commodities of the market.
TRAFFICS verb
  1. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods
  2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
  3. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

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