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Quite a few are scratch (5)

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score

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'are scratch' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for score that I've seen before include "Music from film" , "marks" , "Notch; twenty" , "Mark; twenty" , "Reckoning" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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