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Breaking toe, cries inside (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

esoteric

'inside' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'breaking toe cries' is the wordplay.
'breaking' indicates anagramming the letters.
'toe'+'cries'='toecries'
'toecries' with letters rearranged gives 'ESOTERIC'.

(Other definitions for esoteric that I've seen before include "Intended for the few" , "Mysterious to all but a chosen few" , "I set core up to be mysterious" , "just seen by specialist" , "Tie score (anagram)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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