Cryptic crossword clue
Uniform Act prevents checks — troops once screened by these 8

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word TESTUDOS

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The straight part
We know that "troops once screened by these" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case troops once screened by these = testudos.
The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TESTUDOS mean?

TESTUDOS noun
  1. A shelter formed by a body of troops by holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
  2. A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
  3. A kind of lyre; so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
  4. An encysted tumour.
  5. The fornix.

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