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Left after splendid Scottish fight (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

brawl

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'fight' is the definition.
(I know that fight can be written as brawl)

'left after splendid scottish' is the wordplay.
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'splendid scottish' becomes 'braw' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'l' after 'braw' is 'BRAWL'.

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(Other definitions for brawl that I've seen before include "Abounding" , "Melee" , "Quarrel noisily" , "Noisy crowd fight" , "I'd punt for a learned person" .)

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