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Mostly stumble through unimportant details (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trivia

'unimportant details' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'mostly stumble through' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter.
'stumble' becomes 'trip' ('trip' can be a synonym of 'stumble').
'through' becomes 'via' (I've seen this before).
'trip' with its final letter taken away is 'tri'.
'tri'+'via'='TRIVIA'

(Other definitions for trivia that I've seen before include "Minor details" , "Matters very little" , "Unimportant things, minor matters" , "useless bits of information?" , "Non-essential data" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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