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Untouchable players who are strikers (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

outcast

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'untouchable players who are strikers' is the definition.
'outcast' can be an answer for 'untouchable' (I've seen this before). I'm not certain of the rest of the definition.

'untouchable players' is the wordplay.
'untouchable' becomes 'out' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'players' becomes 'cast' (group of actors).
'out'+'cast'='OUTCAST'

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(Other definitions for outcast that I've seen before include "One banished from society" , "Pariah, leper" , "Pariah, one rejected by society" , "One excluded from group" , "Exile" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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