The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word OMEGA
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O
M
E
G
A
More clues leading to the result OMEGA
- Round and large character
- Come gallantly holding final letter
- Greek character hiding in handsome garden
- Last of the Athenian characters
- Oxygen required by huge Greek character
- Olympian character of some games
- Last Oscar given to Titanic
- Last of twenty-four, nothing major
- Oval game unfortunately is last of the series
- Greek character old and huge
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The straight part
We know that "last letter" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case last letter = omega.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does OMEGA mean?
OMEGA noun- The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω.
- (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.
- Angular velocity; symbol: ω.
- An omega male.
- The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
- In omegaverse fiction, a person of a sexually-submissive (and sometimes secondary) gender/sex that is driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an alpha, with males of this type often being able to get pregnant.