Laughing out loud about article in woolly extract (7)
I believe the answer is:
lanolin
'woolly extract' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both substances as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'laughing out loud about article in' is the wordplay.
'laughing out loud' becomes 'lol' (this could be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'article' becomes 'an' (indefinite article).
'lol' enclosing 'an' is 'lanol'.
'lanol'+'in'='LANOLIN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lanolin that I've seen before include "Substance found on sheep's wool" , "Oil on sheep's wool" , "substance found in ointments" , "Oil extracted from wool" , "Yellow viscous oil from animals -- in on all (anag)" .)