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Fairly narrow-minded about rule (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pretty

'fairly' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'narrow-minded about rule' is the wordplay.
'narrow-minded' becomes 'petty' ('petty' can be similar in meaning to 'narrow-minded').
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rule' becomes 'r' (legal abbreviation).
'petty' going around 'r' is 'PRETTY'.

(Other definitions for pretty that I've seen before include "Fairly - good-looking" , "Delicately attractive" , "chocolate-box" , "Reasonably" , "charming to look at" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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