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Scattered letters in a press (6)

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I believe the answer is:

sparse

'scattered' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'letters in a press' is the wordplay.
'letters in' indicates anagramming the letters.
'a'+'press'='apress'
'apress' with letters rearranged gives 'SPARSE'.

(Other definitions for sparse that I've seen before include "Infrequent" , "Rare" , "Thinly dotted about" , "Scarce like thinning hair" , "Thinly spread" .)

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