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Cash -- shilling -- Scrooge's clerk hasn’t got it (7)

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scratch

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(Other definitions for scratch that I've seen before include "In golf, a handicap of zero strokes" , "withdraw from tournament" , "claw" , "minor injury" , "Slight cut" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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