The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GROVE
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More clues leading to the result GROVE
- Last bit of tiring ramble in wood
- Run into Brexiteer in wood
- Fellow leaving tree in swamp for wood
- Wood – a name known to many music students
- Girl to stray in woodland
- Crawl, losing footing in wood
- Schools meddler put “irrational” third in music dictionary
- Good to wander in plantation
- Gas spreading over plantation
- Almost crawl to wood
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The straight part
We know that "Wood/a name known to many music students" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case wood/a name known to many music students = grove.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GROVE mean?
GROVE noun- A small forest.
- An orchard of fruit trees.
- (Druidism) A place of worship.
- A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
- To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
- (of trees) To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
- To plough or gouge with lines.