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Worthless setter's endlessly in trouble (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trivial

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'worthless' is the definition.
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'setter's endlessly in trouble' is the wordplay.
'setter's endlessly' becomes 'vi' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'trouble' becomes 'trial' (trial is a kind of trouble).
'vi' going into 'trial' is 'TRIVIAL'.

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(Other definitions for trivial that I've seen before include "Piddling" , "Worthless" , "Popular board game" , "Of little substance or significance" , "Of little consequence" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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