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Observed Greek character in organised crime (7)

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I believe the answer is:

empiric

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'observed greek' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'character in organised crime' is the wordplay.
'character' becomes 'pi' (pi is a kind of character).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'organised' is an anagram indicator.
'crime' with letters rearranged gives 'emric'.
'pi' inserted inside 'emric' is 'EMPIRIC'.

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(Other definitions for empiric that I've seen before include "working by trial and error" , "medical quack" , "Based on experience" , "Derived from experiment and observation rather than theory" , "Old quack doctor" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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