The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TREE
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More clues leading to the result TREE
- Elder for one right to fetch round support of course
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- Something in the Cherry Orchard: Turgenev, oddly
- Elder for one hour shunning a crowd?
- 3 “not hard” for Rowan?
- Push to give up Times, after reflection – saving this?
- Plant 3 in Dublin
- Among others, General Sherman‘s oddly targeted
- Actor Herbert leaves home?
- Trio missing second plane?
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The straight part
We know that "Elder for one" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case elder for one = tree.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TREE mean?
TREE noun- Fast growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem.
- A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage.
- Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense).
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
- A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (in the plural) Marijuana.
- A cross or gallows.
- Wood; timber.
- A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- The fifth Lenormand card.
- To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- To place in a tree.
- To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
- To take refuge in a tree.