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Nark’s pressing question into the scoring of more ecstasy (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pique

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'nark's' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'pressing question into the scoring of more ecstasy' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'question' could be 'qu' (abbreviation) and 'qu' is present in the answer.
'ecstasy' could be 'e' (informal term for the drug) and 'e' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'pi' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for pique that I've seen before include "score at cards" , "Hurt feelings" , "Arouse" , "nark" , "Resentment at a slight" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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