The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word OPOSSUM
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result OPOSSUM
- Work problem involving outsize marsupial
- Surgery has problem restraining very big animal
- Very large amount of money supporting work for Native American
- Work on huge problem for marsupial
- Work with a large amount of money to find a new world omnivore
- Marsupial finding some flipping emus soporific
- Animal that’s old and can play dead
- Problem after soggy food given to old retarded animal
- Animal getting round cat writer, not old
- Making love shortly after wrestling — animal!
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What does OPOSSUM mean?
OPOSSUM noun- Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. The common species of the United States is Didelphis virginiana.