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What's the score? (4)

Ross

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'score?' is the definition.
(score is a kind of debt)

'what's the' is the wordplay.
'what's' becomes 'deb' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'the' becomes 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects).
'deb'+'t'='DEBT'

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(Other definitions for debt that I've seen before include "Amount owed" , "Money owed or due" , "Amount owing" , "Commitment" , "Financial problem?" .)

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