The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ANALOGUE
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More clues leading to the result ANALOGUE
- Girl with record, we hear, that’s something comparable
- Fit dresses on a model’s back, designed for a similar model
- A ‘flat’ young ale brewed in the old-fashioned way
- Never opened trite magazine, or something similar
- Fits new balloon evenly inside something similar
- One — one record almost due in similar version
- Foreign language for good old correspondent
- Area with a lounge roughly parallel
- Trite magazine having heads sacked, as Time demonstrated by a show of hands?
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The straight part
We know that "as Time demonstrated by a show of hands?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case as time demonstrated by a show of hands? = analogue.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 ANALOGUE mean?
ANALOGUE noun- Something that bears an analogy to something else
- An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin
- A structural derivative of a parent compound that often differs from it by a single element
- (of a device or system) in which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly) variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a sundial)