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One has gathered wood for burning (2,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

on fire

'burning' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'one has gathered wood' is the wordplay.
'has gathered' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'wood' becomes 'fir' (fir is a kind of wood).
'one' going around 'fir' is 'ON FIRE'.

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for on fire that I've seen before include "Burning" , "in flames" , "Enthusiastic" , "Excited or ablaze" , "Eager" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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