The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word REDUNDANT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result REDUNDANT
- Unemployed debt-collector bitten by ruddy insect!
- Greyish-brown in colour, insect is unwanted
- Cherry, nut and bananas not required
- Superfluous revolutionary and German worker
- Superfluous, and under changes with time
- Communist and German colonist no longer needed
- Understand bar staff’s first, sadly, to become superfluous
- Communist and German worker not needed
- Ranted about keeping horse when no longer needed
- Edition in series on poet largely superfluous
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The straight part
We know that "more than needed" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case more than needed = redundant.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 REDUNDANT mean?
REDUNDANT adjective- Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.
- (of words, writing, etc) Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
- Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
- Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.