Fanciful newspaper with nothing to replace article (8)
I believe the answer is:
notional
'fanciful' is the definition.
(I know that fanciful can be written as notional)
'newspaper with nothing to replace article' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'newspaper' could be 'i' (the i is a British newspaper) and 'i' is located in the answer.
'nothing' could be 'no' (similar in meaning) and 'no' is located in the answer.
'to' is found in the answer.
'article' could be 'a' (English indefinite article) and 'a' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for notional that I've seen before include "Theoretic" , "Speculative, not based on fact" , "Existing as theory, not existing in reality" , "Hypothetical, imaginary" , "Like ideas of" .)