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Musical king revamped scales beyond blemish (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

wenceslas

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'musical king' is the definition.
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'revamped scales beyond blemish' is the wordplay.
'revamped' is an anagram indicator.
'beyond' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'blemish' becomes 'wen' (wen is a kind of blemish).
'scales' is an anagram of 'ceslas'.
'ceslas' put after 'wen' is 'WENCESLAS'.

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(Other definitions for wenceslas that I've seen before include "Bohemian" , "Carol's good king" , "King in a Christmas carol" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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