Light cereal grass circled by insect (6)
I believe the answer is:
floaty
'light' is the definition.
('floaty' can be similar in meaning to 'light')
'cereal grass circled by insect' is the wordplay.
'cereal grass' becomes 'oat' (oat is a kind of cereal grass).
'circled by' means one lot of letters goes inside another (I've seen this in other clues).
'insect' becomes 'fly' (fly is a kind of insect).
'oat' put inside 'fly' is 'FLOATY'.
(Another definition for floaty that I've seen is " Light and delicate".)
I've seen this clue in The Times.
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