The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word GENIUS
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result GENIUS
- Wizard, one in class
- Brainbox principally interested in taxonomic group
- Class containing one who’s especially talented?
- Our crossword is a type one gets into
- Foremost of intellects in class?
- Brilliance one’s shown in class
- Brilliance leads to generating every new idea unusually speedily
- Class describing imaginary number for Einstein?
- Einstein, say, backing province over country?
- Unusually sanguine; not an extraordinary intellect
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What does GENIUS mean?
GENIUS noun- Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
- Extraordinary mental capacity.
- Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
- The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
- Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.