Possible Clues:

• Relieved an itch
• Scraped, scored
• Scored, but taken from the field
• Removed the cards shuffled, including clubs
• Assembled from available bits editor struck out
• One becomes so withdrawn with a score like this
• Used one's nails and withdrew from the competition
• What one did when one was itching to cancel
• Wrote hurriedly and withdrew
• Following a scrape, the event will not take place