Heading for match, cool guy is excitedly studying the scores (10)
I believe the answer is:
musicology
'studying the scores' is the definition.
(studying musical scores)
'heading for match cool guy is excitedly' is the wordplay.
'heading for' says to take the initial letters.
'excitedly' is an anagram indicator.
The first letter of 'match' is 'm'.
'cool'+'guy'+'is'='coolguyis'
'coolguyis' anagrammed gives 'usicology'.
'm'+'usicology'='MUSICOLOGY'
(Another definition for musicology that I've seen is " sound discipline".)
I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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