Scorer getting runs after live game's start (4)

Independent Cryptic #10927 | 1 Down | 2021-10-20
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

R (runs, in cricket scoring) after BE (live, as a verb), then the starting letter of G [ame]. The surface suggests a somewhat better cricket performance than in 29a, but the “scorer” here is actually a composer of musical scores: the Austrian composer Alban Berg.

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