Unconventional requital for one fourth of the population (8)
I believe the answer is:
quartile
'one fourth of the population' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.
'unconventional requital' is the wordplay.
'unconventional' indicates an anagram.
'requital' with letters rearranged gives 'QUARTILE'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for quartile that I've seen is " A fourth part of a distribution (stats)".)
I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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