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Wooden support used to raise contents of beds (7)

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I believe the answer is:

stilted

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'wooden' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'support used to raise contents of beds' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'to' could be 'til' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'til' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'sted' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for stilted that I've seen before include "Stiff and pompous" , "Unnatural sounding and overformal" , "Stiff and unnatural" , "Bombastic (of speech, writing)" , "Artificially formal or contrived" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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