### Clue: Rank Epstein's work, say, not close to Moore (6)
### Answer: STATUS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Rank
 "statues"(examples of;say, British sculptor Jacob Epstein's work) **minus**(not) **the last letter of**(close to) "Moore". Henry Moore was another English sculptor, hence the surface reading.
Epstein and  Moore – close or not close?