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Ensuring people aren't kept in the dark about building? (8)

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floodlit

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'building?' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for floodlit that I've seen before include "Illuminated, eg for sport at night" , "Artificially illuminated" , "was intensely illuminating" , "in the full glare of publicity" , "as late matches are played?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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