The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 11 letter word NEANDERTHAL
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result NEANDERTHAL
- Hansel and Gretel running with wobbly legs away from brute
- Dislodged earl then stays with reactionary
- Neat handler depicted wrongly as uncivilised
- The eland ran nervously out of the ark
- Old person that is somehow different than an elder
- An adherent about fifty who is terribly behind the times?
- ... and he learnt perhaps to hunt in Europe once
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The straight part
We know that "out of the ark" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case out of the ark = neanderthal.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does NEANDERTHAL mean?
NEANDERTHAL noun- A specimen of the now extinct species Homo neanderthalensis.
- A primitive person.
- Of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis.
- Old-fashioned, opposed to change (in allusion to Homo neanderthalensis).
- Of or pertaining to the Neander Valley in Germany.