The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word STUMP
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result STUMP
- What feller leaves behind is puzzle
- First umpire carries part of wicket
- Remainder of a tree / puzzle
- Dismiss puzzle — must pee
- Baffle with incomplete limb
- Good person out of bed, male breaks in to confuse
- Must solve Papa’s puzzle
- Puzzle an axeman would leave behind
- Dismiss such a political speech
- Throw what remains of tree
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What does STUMP mean?
STUMP noun- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- A leg.
- A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
- To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- To campaign.
- To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
- To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.