The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word EIGHTY
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result EIGHTY
- Four score - important when opener is dismissed
- Wounded GI and the unknown pensioner might be so old
- Significant wicket falling — score short of a hundred
- Figure very important to dismiss Head
- Figure important, though not the first
- Figure's rather heavy, not wide
- Scores four? Many more
- Serious to lose wicket, having score less than 100
- 4 score they deployed around soldier in retreat
- Figure that’s important dismissing Welsh
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The straight part
We know that "score less than 100" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case score less than 100 = eighty.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does EIGHTY mean?
EIGHTY numeral- The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.