Cryptic crossword clue
Chancy games from American inhabiting minute Square 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word MAINS

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What does MAINS mean?

1. Short for mainline.
2. To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game.
3. Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road.

1. That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
2. A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.
3. Short for main course.
4. The high seas.
5. The mainland.
6. Short for mainsail.
7. (except in might and main) Force, power, strength, violent effort.

1. A hand or match in a game of dice.
2. The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine called out by a person before the dice are thrown.
3. A stake played for at dice.
4. A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.
5. A banker's shovel for coins.

1. A basket for gathering grapes.

1. The domestic electrical power supply.
2. The pipes of a centralized water supply that transport the water to individual buildings.
3. The main course of a meal.

1. The farm attached to a mansion house.

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