The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word NEGATIVE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result NEGATIVE
- No image for a developer
- Undeveloped picture, say, found in local
- A sort of image, no?
- Veto say kept by long-time resident
- Local holding for example? No
- Natural to accept, say, veto
- Gloomy in local eating empty ‘Scotch’ dish
- Refusal, say, to be put in home
- No local houses for one
- Retrospectively, Lloyd Webber’s musical background is unfortunate
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The straight part
We know that "Refusal" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case refusal = negative.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does NEGATIVE mean?
NEGATIVE noun- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- A right of veto.
- An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
- (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
- A negative quantity.
- : A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
- The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- To refuse; to veto.
- To contradict.
- To disprove.
- To make ineffective; to neutralize.
- Not positive nor neutral.
- Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- Of a number: less than zero
- Denying a proposition.
- Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
- Often used pejoratively: pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
- Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
- (New Age jargon) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- HIV negative
- (signalling) An elaborate synonym for no.