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Auditor's folk investigating source of firewood? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

copse

'source of firewood?' is the definition.
(a copse is a small wood)

'auditor's folk investigating' is the wordplay.
'auditor's' shows a homophone (sound like).
'folk investigating' becomes 'cops' (police officers).
'cops' sounds like 'COPSE'.

(Other definitions for copse that I've seen before include "Harvested woodland" , "Stand of trees" , "Coppice" , "Small group of trees" , "Dense thicket of trees" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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