The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TERMITE
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More clues leading to the result TERMITE
- Support taking in jolly relations one found in wood?
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- Oddly, their arachnid is an insect
- Name I note for insect
- 22 across, stratum ignoring one little bit
- Call upright character The Heartless Insect
- Insect: end one on hollow treille
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- Insect described as ‘short’ — it gets trapped
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The straight part
We know that "one found in wood" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case one found in wood = termite.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TERMITE mean?
TERMITE noun- A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.
- Of a chimpanzee: to catch termites by inserting a stick or vine into their nest and waiting for them to climb up it.