The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CRACKERS
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The straight part
We know that "Solvers/excellent people" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case solvers/excellent people = crackers.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CRACKERS mean?
CRACKERS noun- A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
- A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
- A firecracker.
- A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
- A Christmas cracker.
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
- (racial slur) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person.
- (Florida) A police officer.
- A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
- A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
- Crazy, insane.