Cryptic crossword clue
In America, unfairly, Hillary’s No 1 female monster 8

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

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We know that "female monster" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case female monster = chimaera.
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What does CHIMAERA mean?

CHIMAERA noun
  1. A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin
CHIMAERA noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Chimera (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail).
  2. Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.
  3. Anything composed of very disparate parts.
  4. A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
  5. A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
  6. An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
  7. Usually chimaera: a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.

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