My first part is a golden autumn harvest grain, and my second part is a spider's web building block. Put us together to form what remains after eating sweet corn. What am I?
A corncob
'Corn' (autumn crop) + 'cob' (short for cobweb) creates 'corncob', the core left behind after eating corn.
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