The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word HOMINID
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More clues leading to the result HOMINID
- Scuttle round little old man
- A close relation? Do him in if misbehaving
- Primate not half pious intellectual, I'll be bound
- Man that’s lost house key outside car
- Man, d’oh! Reversed over little car!
- Little in note about primate
- Sheltering in coal scuttle is little primate
- Member of our family kept out of sight, taking zero minutes
- a Primate wee in coal scuttle
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The straight part
We know that "Member of our family" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case member of our family = hominid.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does HOMINID mean?
HOMINID noun- Any primate of the taxonomic family Hominidae. All the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans).
- Of the Hominidae