The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word GANYMEDE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result GANYMEDE
- Satellite many misinterpreted to have jagged edge all round
- Smitten gay men date heartless Trojan hunk
- Moon's gravitational constant may need adjusting
- Beautiful youth ultimately serving some old lawmaker
- Moon named Calypso’s core, eg rocky
- Deny game is fixed by satellite
- Gay men out on date, not content to see the moon
- Moon, eg named for orbiting around Mercury in the end
- Beautiful youth, awfully mean and edgy
- Gay men, fancy of French serving boy
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