The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ROMANTIC
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result ROMANTIC
- Loving ancient city's uncontrolled movement
- Sentimental type initially involved with Marconi
- Fond memory — larks, no end
- Minor act excited one sort of poet
- Italian twitching — he's sentimental about birds
- . Sentimental tosh about bloke in charge
- Capital fellow taking on jerk like Lothario?
- Amorous date’s cancelled, Doc Martin’s devastated
- Idyllic old Italian metropolis briefly recollected
- Unrealistic Abramovich starts to tear into Chelsea?
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The straight part
We know that "Idyllic" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case idyllic = romantic.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ROMANTIC mean?
ROMANTIC adjective- Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Corsican, etc.
- Of or pertaining to Romance.
- Of or pertaining to Romanticism.
- A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance).
- A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love).
- Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.
- Fictitious, imaginary.
- Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
- Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.
- Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.