The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TRIVIAL
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More clues leading to the result TRIVIAL
- Pilot admitting sex is meaningless
- Petty criminal may be up for it - sex in custody
- Enter four or six in test? Of little importance
- Minor hearing about sex in Rome
- Mickey Mouse I have briefly put in trouble
- Hearing about four or six piddling
- Six in court case that’s unimportant
- Case full of French wine mostly, but no great shakes
- Inconsequential number involved in action
- Sextet entering competition that’s inconsequential
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The straight part
We know that "Of little importance" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case of little importance = trivial.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TRIVIAL mean?
TRIVIAL noun- Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
- Ignorable; of little significance or value.
- Commonplace, ordinary.
- Concerned with or involving trivia.
- Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
- Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
- Self-evident.
- Pertaining to the trivium.
- Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.