The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 plus 4 letter word TREE FROG
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result TREE FROG
- Refer to eccentric golfer’s top: an impressive jumper!
- High jumper got back across free-flowing river
- Regret of stumbling high jumper
- Forget about bringing in soldier’s climbing jumper?
- Tramp circling rocky ridge finds amphibian
- Two-thirds of grotto collapsed around rock amphibian
- Go right back around rocks to find amphibian
- Amphibious species go right up around coral ridge
- Caveman circling rocky ridge finds amphibian
- French turn up supporting pedigree amphibian!
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