Clues for the word "MINOR"
We've had 156 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 317 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on May 26, 2026.
Definition of minor
- a. - Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
- a. - Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
- n. - A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
- n. - The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
- n. - A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
Referring Clues
- Like some keys
- Second-fiddle
- Bush-league
- Hardly important
- ___ third (interval from A to C, e.g.)
- College student's declaration
- Dependent, often
- Fake ID holder, most likely
- Ursa ___ (constellation containing the star Polaris)
- Nondrinker by law
- Hardly worth mentioning
- Person under 21
- Petty
- Word with Asia or Ursa
- Teen, maybe
- 17-year-old, legally
- Major responsibility for a parent
- Secondary
- Bouncer's victim
- 15-year-old, legally
- Not so serious
- Unimportant
- One who can't legally drink or drive
- Low on the totem pole
- Key of Mozart's "Odense" Symphony
- One barred from a bar
- Not serious
- Key that often sounds gloomy
- Slight
- Underage one
- Trivial
- One bounced by a bouncer
- Not important
- Insignificant
- Relatively unimportant
- Not very important
- College student's secondary focus
- Secondary field of study
- Secondary course of study
- Collegiate choice
- One who can't legally drink
- Like some chords
- Major responsibility for a parent?
- 23-Across opposite
- Of small importance
- Secondary study
- Subspecialty
- Underage person
- Trifling
- Unimpor-tant
- College study
- Less important
- Not that important
- See 96-Down
- Two-bit
- Child
- Second-highest course concentration, often
- Hardly significant
- Not so important
- Not of legal age
- Key designation
- Not as important
- One barred from bars
- Like a fender-bender, perhaps
- Bouncer's bane
- Adult's counterpart
- Word with "Asia" or "Ursa"
- Juvenile
- No big deal
- One of the Ursas
- Bouncer's bouncee
- Type of league
- One with a fake ID, maybe
- Not significant
- Underage
- Type of key
- Of little importance
- Like some musical keys
- Of little significance
- Like melancholy musical keys
- Carder's target
- Not noteworthy
- Carrier of a fake ID, often
- 14-year-old, e.g.
- Bouncer's concern
- Not of age
- College student's other focus
- 1001 and not a young person!
- Person under age
- Opposite of major
- Lesser
- Not major
- See 22
- Unimportant museum piece, wrought iron
- Start mining gold in a small way
- Unimportant, yet possibly of some prominence?
- Unimportant part of indicator at motorway junction
- Unimportant comeback in the part of Geronimo
- Morris junior?
- Major disagreement
- Little old car with no right to be on the M1?
- Smaller, being younger
- Though only young, can still have a key
- Small-scale - child
- Of less importance
- Many an iron worker, apparently, is under age!
- Little
- Inconsequential
- Not a key key
- Barely worth mentioning
- See 17
- No entry to space station for child
- Child taken from mum in orphanage
- Little-known part of domino rules
- Child about to leave Mediterranean island
- Person who is not yet a legal adult
- Some gamin: orphaned child
- ___ leagues
- Like some piano keys
- U-turn from major
- Fake-ID carrier, often
- Pre-18 person
- Youngster's bit of work for the ministry
- Fake ID seeker
- One under 21
- Less, inferior
- Like the key of Beethoven's Fifth
- Many a fake ID carrier
- Child, legally speaking
- Not at all significant
- One who can't buy beer
- Asia ___
- ___ chord
- Small, but maybe of some prominence?
- Youngster of little importance?
- Underaged
- No major figure in a centre for divorces
- Trivial, as issues
- Key that may sound sad or angry
- Unimportant, yet possibly of some prominence?
- Not requiring much attention, say
- Youth
- Morris junior?
- Small-time
- Person under 18
- Little old car with no right to be on the M1?
- Of little consequence
- College declaration
- Major alternative for a composer
- Key type
- Secondary area of study
- No major piece of work for a minister
- Like a key that may evoke sadness
- Secondary subject for a college student
- Student's subspecialty
- Though young, possibly of some prominence
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 26, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - May 07, 2026
- New York Times - April 29, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 24, 2026
- LA Times - March 29, 2026
- LA Times - March 16, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 04, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 08, 2026
- Daily Quick - January 28, 2026
- New York Times - December 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 02, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 26, 2025
- Daily American - November 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 12, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 22, 2025
- LA Times - September 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 09, 2025
- New York Times - June 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 16, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 14, 2025
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