The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TINFOIL
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result TINFOIL
- Work hard, gathering in fine wrapping material
- Work outside home with fine alloy sheet
- Food wrapper can be frustrating
- Dope going round block for wrapping material
- One old racist party piercing Labour’s protective wrapping
- Work to hold in food, primarily, as food wrapper
- A help in the kitchen can cook one’s goose?
- Rubbish half knocked over dope’s put in kitchen wrapping
- Labour carrying in loud chef’s essential item?
- Element to prevent food protection
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The straight part
We know that "Food wrapper" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case food wrapper = tinfoil.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TINFOIL mean?
TINFOIL noun- A thin, pliable sheet of tin or an alloy of tin and lead, used as a protective wrapping.
- Aluminium foil
- To cover in tinfoil.