The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word LESSER
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More clues leading to the result LESSER
- Landlord abandons love for English? That’s not so great!
- Secondary selection of vehicles serviced
- Queen not working, making tutoring not so important
- Subordinate in Nazi police poking eyeball
- Minor saints occupying shelter initially refuse virtues of wilderness places
- Minor saints will appear in bit of film coming up
- Minor Royal stalks Society featured in Parisian article
- Some tables, seriously lower
- Sales, service partially reduced
- Inferior bibles sermoniser purchases
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "reduced" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case reduced = lesser.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 LESSER mean?
LESSER noun- A thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.
- Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the smaller in size (littler), in value, in importance etc.
- Small in size.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- Very young.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- (also Little) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- Small in amount or number, having few members.
- Short in duration; brief.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.