The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ARTEFACT
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result ARTEFACT
- Man-made item contaminated tart, limiting restaurant's turnover
- Transport café: traveller holds up object of interest
- Object to Spooner’s Le Pétomane show?
- Spooner says Le Pétomane’s an object of historic interest
- Fat trace processed in manufactured product
- Fat cat about to ruin item of historical interest
- Something known to be associated with human skill and endeavour, primarily?
- Upset after performance one’s created
- Arab diplomacy securing English and French object?
- Item from a-la-carte factories
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The straight part
We know that "manufactured product" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case manufactured product = artefact.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does ARTEFACT mean?
ARTEFACT noun- An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.
- An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
- Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.
- A finding or structure in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.
- An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
- An appearance or structure in protoplasm due to death, the method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.
- A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm.