The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word EXISTENT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result EXISTENT
- Current range is being restricted
- Real sexist entertainer on the inside
- Current is flooding area
- Lives in area, making living
- Part with gun in present
- One’s transfixed by magnitude in reality
- Difficult, at sixteen, to make a living
- Real chauvinistic tendency leads astray
- Real alien restricting figures going in opposing directions
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What does EXISTENT mean?
EXISTENT noun- A being or entity that exists independently
- Existing; having life or being, current; occurring now