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Went in to contribute to the score (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

twenty

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'score' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'went in to contribute to the' is the wordplay.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'to contribute' becomes 'y' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'the' becomes 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects).
'y' after 't' is 'ty'.
'went' placed inside 'ty' is 'TWENTY'.

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(Other definitions for twenty that I've seen before include "Score, XX" , "Hundredweights to a ton" , "previous clue?" , "No longer a teenager" , "John B Keane wrote about many young men of this age" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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