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Memorial’s not cheap, unfortunately (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cenotaph

'memorial's' is the definition.
(cenotaph is a kind of memorial)

'not cheap unfortunately' is the wordplay.
'unfortunately' is an anagram indicator (a bad or unfortunate spelling).
'not'+'cheap'='notcheap'
'notcheap' is an anagram of 'CENOTAPH'.

(Other definitions for cenotaph that I've seen before include "Tomb-like monument to people buried elsewhere" , "Whitehall memorial" , "Monument honouring the fallen" , "Monument built to honour soldiers who died in war" , "What divides Whitehall" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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