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Cliff Wilde's leaving capital (4)

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scar

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(Other definitions for scar that I've seen before include "Craggy outcrop" , "Evidence of an old wound" , "Bare rocky cliff - injury" , "Limestone cliff or outcrop" , "Trace of an old injury" .)

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