The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ALHAMBRA
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More clues leading to the result ALHAMBRA
- Palace play badly after City up support
- Palace regularly fail poor player needing support
- Special ham/Branston sandwich filling – that sounds moreish!
- Palace turned over City and Gunners
- Crooner and lousy actor given support in Spanish building
- An animal god devours hearts in palace and fortress
- Palace where an innocent artist captures hearts
- Impressive building suffering harm, a lab
- Husband brought in a meek person to meet artist in palace
- Edifice constructed when Balham turned to god.
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