Possible Clues:

• Scale of US money I rate
• Scale of new rant about good by church
• Give up introducing complex rating scale
• Cook creating delicious and enticing starters in a hundred steps
• Thermometer scale
• Temperature scale
• Certain degrees, in short, represented in this
• Sounds as if one sent one degree by degrees but not far in height
• I level slope on trail, say, that gives a measure of warmth
• Temperature measure