The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ANTEATER
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More clues leading to the result ANTEATER
- Mammal climbing Sicilian mountain consumed last of water
- What might fill worker and queen with worry?
- Rabbit finally caught by a smarter animal
- Might one take in workers for a meal?
- Creature finding soldiers a source of food?
- Creature needs to eat, missing nothing, coming in terribly near
- Animal disturbed near outside source of milk
- See 7d
- Nuts aren't about to worry animal
- A pangolin perhaps in area — tent being abandoned
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The straight part
We know that "Might one take in workers for a meal" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case might one take in workers for a meal = anteater.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ANTEATER mean?
ANTEATER noun- Any of several animals, in suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues.
- Any of some other unrelated species that feed with ants, including pangolin (scaly anteater), echidna (spiny anteater), aardvark and numbat (banded anteater).