The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word OVERDONE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result OVERDONE
- Excessive start to opera: composer’s last in different form?
- Topless paramour getting close to loved one is immoderate
- Love Italian composer mostly? Somebody exaggerated
- Finished on the double? That’s a bit excessive
- Extravagant party held by old French writer
- Twice concluded that it is exaggerated
- Germany united to underpin surplus and exaggerated
- Finished twice? That’s not rare
- Ring Jules about party getting ruined
- Bagging 500 in opening spell of bowling is excessive
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The straight part
We know that "immoderate" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case immoderate = overdone.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 OVERDONE mean?
OVERDONE verb- To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far.
- To cook for too long.
- To give (someone or something) too much work; to require too much effort or strength of (someone); to use up too much of (something).
- To do more than (someone); to do (something) to a greater extent.
- Cooked too much.
- Exaggerated.
- Repeated too often; hackneyed.