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Bring crackers into part of ground for lark? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

songbird

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'for lark?' is the definition.
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'bring crackers into part of ground' is the wordplay.
'crackers' indicates an anagram (informal term for mad).
'into' indicates putting letters inside.
'part of ground' becomes 'sod' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'bring' is an anagram of 'ngbir'.
'ngbir' going within 'sod' is 'SONGBIRD'.

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(Other definitions for songbird that I've seen before include "lark, perhaps" , "Thrush, for instance" , "Lark, for example" , "Eg, warbler" , "Nightingale, for example" .)

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