The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word LOCATION
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result LOCATION
- Spot calcium used in cosmetic cream
- Spot roughly covered with emollient
- Spot about to be covered by ointment
- Light orange colour initially, at ten sun finally setting
- Place showing tenfold boost to start of career
- Moved coal into site
- Feline pinching old feline’s place
- Something to soothe hosts about film’s being shot here?
- See action unfolding in place
- Checking in at cool place
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The straight part
We know that "setting" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case setting = location.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 LOCATION mean?
LOCATION noun- A particular point or place in physical space.
- An act of locating.
- An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
- A leasing on rent.
- A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
- The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.