The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word TURNPIKE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result TURNPIKE
- Where travellers pay to go and fish
- Shifted tinker up toll road once
- American highway staff attending diversion
- Working group, servicemen in the main, staff historical gate
- Fish below bend in toll road
- Go to staff barrier
- Go and fish below the old road
- American way to spoil fish
- Make dive the American way
- Go with swimmer to find toll road
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The straight part
We know that "the American way" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case the american way = turnpike.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TURNPIKE mean?
TURNPIKE noun- A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.
- A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid,
- A winding stairway.
- A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
- A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
- (mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
- To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.