The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word NINTH
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More clues leading to the result NINTH
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- Man in the orchestra playing Beethoven’s Choral Symphony
- Beethoven’s last?
- Plugging Isopon in the hole, about halfway round
- Ranked as a lower-order batsman, direction is to keep in — or out
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- Ordinal carried by clergyman, in theory
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The straight part
We know that "(5)" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case (5) = ninth.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does NINTH mean?
NINTH noun- The person or thing in the ninth position.
- One of nine equal parts of a whole.
- The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).
- To lose a ninth
- To divide by nine
- The ordinal form of the number nine.