The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ECOLOGIST
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ECOLOGIST
- I could be worried to see lost ice go
- As one studying certain relationships, I got close, involved
- Green specialist in City loves squeezing large marrow
- One re-imagining geopolitics without industrialism and petroleum, primarily?
- Green company record is captured by film
- English officer meaning to arrest old green campaigner
- Record one’s temperature, following author and environmental expert
- American soldier wears coolest ensemble in green
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The straight part
We know that "environmental expert" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case environmental expert = ecologist.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ECOLOGIST mean?
ECOLOGIST noun- A scholar of ecology.