Crucial English is taken up in bank? More or less (10)
I believe the answer is:
relatively
'less' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adverbs. Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'crucial english is taken up in bank? more' is the wordplay.
'crucial' becomes 'vital' (I've seen this before).
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'is taken up' says the letters should be written backwards.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'bank? more' becomes 'rely' (I've seen this before. I am not sure about the 'more' bit.**).
'vital'+'e'='vitale'
'vitale' written backwards gives 'elativ'.
'elativ' placed within 'rely' is 'RELATIVELY'.
'or' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for relatively that I've seen before include "Somewhat" , "in the family way?" .)