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Minor adjustment lacking ability to support argument's conclusion (5)

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I believe the answer is:

tweak

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'minor adjustment' is the definition.
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'lacking ability to support argument's conclusion' is the wordplay.
'lacking ability' becomes 'weak' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to support' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, some letters hold up others).
'conclusion' indicates one should take the final letters.
The final letter of 'argument' is 't'.
'weak' after 't' is 'TWEAK'.

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(Other definitions for tweak that I've seen before include "Fine-tune, twist" , "Make small adjustment" , "Fine adjustment (colloq.)" , "[TUG]" , "Edit" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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