The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 plus 4 letter word NATIONAL DEBT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result NATIONAL DEBT
- An outstanding feature of our economy?
- Not available, Ian bottled out – a big burden to us
- A lot behind, hard to forget unfortunately, after retirement of Brown — this much still left behind
- Britain’s outstanding figure perhaps beaten in battle, and inspiring love
- Financial problem for people in land to beat somehow
- Mingled to blend in, at a thing that’s outstanding for all of us
- End battalion possibly on account of country’s financial problem?
- Lib annotated sorting out the deficit
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