The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word MINOR
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More clues leading to the result MINOR
- Trifling child
- Key for ward
- Less important part of farm in Oregon
- Mine ore endlessly that’s inferior
- Young person, one who might work underground, would you say?
- Small island about to disappear
- Less important Greek character avoiding creature of Greek legend
- Child taken from mum in orphanage
- Child about to leave Mediterranean island
- Reportedly, underground worker’s petty
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The straight part
We know that "inferior" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case inferior = minor.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does MINOR mean?
MINOR noun- A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
- A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- Determinant of a square submatrix
- (British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
- A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
- The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.
- To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
- Of little significance or importance.
- Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
- Being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number