The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word FORTE
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More clues leading to the result FORTE
- Strong point favouring team — first half
- Strength shown by triathlete initially in front
- Loudly supporting peripheral characters in theatre
- Bent piece of cutlery shortly before time to eat starter
- Skill rendering sort of musical passage
- Strength comes from self or team?
- Like couple in song, endlessly? Strong point
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The straight part
We know that "Strong point" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case strong point = forte.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 FORTE mean?
FORTE noun- A strength or talent.
- The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
- A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.
- Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.)
- Loudly.