The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word WILLOW
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More clues leading to the result WILLOW
- Surprised exclamation about blight in wood
- Sensation about sick bat
- Boy’s entertaining run down wood
- Boy nurses poorly bat
- Bat that’s amazing, controlling ball with no need for power
- Bat somehow saved from disastrous swallow dive
- Pattern of goodness overcoming evil
- . ..cricket bat // from a plant // making a machine for the textile industry
- Testament that hurts tree
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The straight part
We know that "tree" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case tree = willow.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does WILLOW mean?
WILLOW noun- Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
- The wood of these trees.
- A cricket bat.
- (1800s) The baseball bat.
- A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
- To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow.
- To form a shape or move in a way similar to the long, slender branches of a willow.