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Spinning of spider catching insect finally -- like a bumblebee? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

striped

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'like a bumblebee?' is the definition.
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'spinning of spider catching insect finally' is the wordplay.
'spinning of' indicates anagramming the letters.
'catching' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'finally' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'insect' is 't'.
'spider' with letters rearranged gives 'sriped'.
'sriped' going around 't' is 'STRIPED'.

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(Other definitions for striped that I've seen before include "Decorated with lines" , "like Shere Khan" , "Red tips (anag.)" , "Like a zebra" , "streaked" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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