Cryptic crossword clue
With individual, German the more open 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word WIDER

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What does WIDER mean?

WIDER adjective
  1. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
  2. Large in scope.
  3. Operating at the side of the playing area.
  4. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
  5. Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
  6. (now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
  7. Located some distance away; distant, far.
  8. Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
  9. Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
WIDER adverb
  1. Extensively
  2. Completely
  3. Away from a given goal
  4. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

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