| Rough programme announced |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
01 Sep 2025 |
| Crude, vulgar (6) |
Puzzler |
26 Aug 2025 |
| Vulgar |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Aug 2025 |
| Sandpaper specification |
Newsday |
03 Aug 2025 |
| Rough-textured |
Commuter |
22 Jul 2025 |
| Rough-textured |
Newsday |
20 Jul 2025 |
| Rough path, by the sound of it? (6) |
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| Sandpapery |
LA Times Daily |
20 Jul 2025 |
| Rough or harsh (6) |
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| Offensive passage in speech |
The Telegraph Toughie |
26 Jun 2025 |
| Rewrite a score with no refinements (6) |
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| Heard route was rough (6) |
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| Rough journey being broadcast (6) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
06 May 2025 |
| Crude educational programme for audience |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
26 Apr 2025 |
| Cloth . Fishing . Grained (6) |
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| How rough to have cares for nothing! (6) |
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| Rough |
The Times Concise |
04 Feb 2025 |
| Common speech, of course (6) |
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| Not even around a score (6) |
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| Rough route, reportedly (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
09 Jan 2025 |
| Rough-cut, as salt |
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| Vulgar |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Dec 2024 |
| Like low grit number sandpaper |
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| Vulgar, indecent (language) |
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| Harsh; unrefined |
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| Rewrote a score that's unfinished (6) |
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| Crude lecture series so to speak (6) |
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| Lacking refinement |
Commuter |
11 Oct 2024 |
| Roughly textured |
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| Gross or a score, maybe (6) |
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| Rough path leading to university overlaid with tar, essentially (6) |
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| Rough course, they say (6) |
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| Rough |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Sep 2024 |
| Indelicate, vulgar (6) |
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| Nothing in vehicles' electronic starter is impure (6) |
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| Unrefined programme reported |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Jul 2024 |
| Vulgar |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Jul 2024 |
| About a score lacking refinement (6) |
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| Rough, lacking refinement (6) |
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| Like beard stubble |
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| Like the speech of one cursing like a sailor |
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| Float rig is a basic set-up for ___ fish (6) |
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| Rough-textured |
USA Today |
19 Jun 2024 |
| ___ ground black pepper |
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| Vulgar Australian originally living in my area of London (6) |
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| Rough way to go, we hear (6) |
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| Rough journey for auditors |
|
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| Vulgar, unrefined |
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| Course sounds rough (6) |
|
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| Crude form of fishing (6) |
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| Inferior, firm rump (6) |
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| Not fine |
New York Times |
14 Apr 2024 |
| Rows in church? That's vulgar |
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| Lacking refinement |
Universal |
13 Apr 2024 |
| Like stubble |
New York Times |
11 Apr 2024 |
| Vulgar programme on radio |
The Times Cryptic |
02 Apr 2024 |
| Rough route, it's said (6) |
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| Rough or harsh in texture (6) |
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| Professor's lectures likely to offend |
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| Sandpaper type |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Feb 2024 |
| Vulgar |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Feb 2024 |
| Rude programme reported |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Feb 2024 |
| Not smooth |
USA Today |
15 Feb 2024 |
| Rough route, reportedly |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Feb 2024 |
| Vulgar programme on the radio |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Jan 2024 |
| Sandpaper type |
Eugene Sheffer |
22 Jan 2024 |
| Vulgar |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Jan 2024 |
| ASCORE |
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| Common vulgar |
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| Like kosher salt, but not table salt |
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| Not fine-grained |
USA Today |
12 Dec 2023 |
| Having a rough texture |
New York Times |
06 Dec 2023 |
| Rough |
New York Times |
01 Nov 2023 |
| Unrefined |
Newsday |
27 Oct 2023 |
| Sandpaper type |
Eugene Sheffer |
21 Oct 2023 |
| Vulgar |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Aug 2023 |
| Like sandpaper |
USA Today |
23 Jul 2023 |
| Crude oil initially featuring in vehicle's energy |
The Times Cryptic |
14 Jun 2023 |
| Churlish |
LA Times Daily |
27 May 2023 |
| Rough-textured |
Premier Sunday |
26 Mar 2023 |
| Rough sounding path |
The Guardian Cryptic |
14 Mar 2023 |
| Like the texture of some hair |
USA Today |
12 Mar 2023 |
| Sandpaper texture |
USA Today |
10 Feb 2023 |
| Unrefined |
Thomas Joseph |
26 Jan 2023 |
| Rough in texture |
USA Today |
01 Jan 2023 |
| Texture of some sugar |
USA Today |
11 Dec 2022 |
| Unrefined |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Nov 2022 |
| Sandpaper type |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Sep 2022 |
| Like some sandpaper |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Aug 2022 |
| Sandpaper texture |
|
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| Rough to the touch or uncouth |
Irish Times Simplex |
16 Jun 2022 |
| Broadcast channel lacking in refinement |
|
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| Like the texture of sea salt |
USA Today |
08 Mar 2022 |
| Not fine |
The Guardian Quick |
05 Feb 2022 |
| Rough or crude |
Irish Times Simplex |
05 Jan 2022 |
| Rough |
USA Today |
05 Dec 2021 |
| Uncouth; harsh |
The Guardian Speedy |
05 Dec 2021 |
| Like some sandpaper |
The Washington Post |
19 Oct 2021 |
| Like some sandpaper |
LA Times Daily |
19 Oct 2021 |
| Rough, unrefined |
Irish Times Simplex |
11 Oct 2021 |
| Rough or crude |
Irish Times Simplex |
21 Sep 2021 |
| Sandpaper type |
Eugene Sheffer |
28 Aug 2021 |
| Vulgar programme on the radio |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Aug 2021 |
| Vulgar |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Jul 2021 |
| Uncultured |
Premier Sunday |
13 Jun 2021 |
| Unrefined programme reported |
|
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| Opposite of fine |
USA Today |
11 May 2021 |
| Rough characters appear when Atletico and Arsenal meet |
|
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| Like horsehair |
New York Times |
25 Mar 2021 |
| Rough and unpolished, say |
|
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| Rough schedule announced |
|
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| Rough |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Jan 2021 |
| Rough path reportedly |
The Telegraph Toughie |
05 Jan 2021 |
| Inferior, so joint bottom? |
|
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| Rows in church, so rude |
|
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| ____ fishing is angling for fish not in the salmon family |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
06 Dec 2020 |
| Wrought |
New York Times |
29 Oct 2020 |
| Rough, unrefined |
Irish Times Simplex |
24 Oct 2020 |
| Vulgar |
Premier Sunday |
18 Oct 2020 |
| Like sandpaper |
USA Today |
11 Oct 2020 |
| Rough |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Sep 2020 |
| Crude or rude |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Aug 2020 |
| Rough or crude |
Irish Times Simplex |
29 Aug 2020 |
| Sandpaper spec |
Newsday |
05 Jul 2020 |
| Not fine |
New York Times |
28 Jun 2020 |
| Track on the radio produced by Shaggy |
Irish Times Crosaire |
03 Jun 2020 |
| Firm bum? That's crude! |
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| Rough passage, it's said? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Apr 2020 |
| Crude |
Canadiana |
09 Mar 2020 |
| Rough path, we hear |
|
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| Firm buttocks of low quality |
|
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| Needing smoothing |
The Washington Post |
04 Nov 2019 |
| Needing smoothing |
LA Times Daily |
04 Nov 2019 |
| Broadcast programme of inferior quality |
|
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| Not refined, bringing rowing gear into Church |
|
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| Like rough sandpaper |
USA Today |
19 Sep 2019 |
| . Crude line, say |
|
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| They say starter perhaps is lacking in taste |
The Telegraph Toughie |
18 Apr 2019 |
| Rough or crude, lacking refinement |
Irish Times Simplex |
15 Mar 2019 |
| Sandpaper designation |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Mar 2019 |
| Sandpaper type |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Jan 2019 |
| Rough, unrefined |
The Times Concise |
04 Jan 2019 |
| Rough rows in church |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 Jan 2019 |
| Needing smoothing |
|
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| Sandpaper designation |
|
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| Like rough sandpaper |
|
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| Rude programme reported |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Dec 2018 |
| Vulgar |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Dec 2018 |
| Riddled with four-letter words |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Nov 2018 |
| Rough, harsh |
The Times Concise |
15 Nov 2018 |
| Unrefined |
Thomas Joseph |
26 Oct 2018 |
| Rough, as sandpaper |
Newsday |
03 Sep 2018 |
| Harsh lectures to the audience |
|
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| Sandpaper category |
New York Times |
27 Jul 2018 |
| Sandpaperlike |
New York Times |
16 Jul 2018 |
| Like sandpaper |
Family Time |
09 Jul 2018 |
| Like sandpaper |
Universal |
04 Jul 2018 |
| Like a rasp, as files go |
USA Today |
16 May 2018 |
| Method is said to be crude |
|
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| Firm bottom? That's rude! |
|
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| Vulgar people who row in church |
The Telegraph Toughie |
01 Feb 2018 |
| Some food said to be lacking taste |
|
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| Rude commander with a rude word |
|
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| Sandpaper category |
|
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| Like a rasp, as files go |
|
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| Riddled with four-letter words |
|
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| Like sandpaper |
|
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| Sandpaperlike |
|
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| . Crude of course, say |
|
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| Tasteless direction taken on the radio |
Irish Times Crosaire |
27 Nov 2017 |
| Rough ride, they say |
|
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| Rough business heading waste disposal unit? |
|
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| Rough |
Universal |
03 Nov 2017 |
| Unsuitable for delicate ears |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Oct 2017 |
| Rough |
Thomas Joseph |
19 Oct 2017 |
| Lacking refinement |
Irish Times Simplex |
24 Aug 2017 |
| Gravelly |
Canadiana |
21 Aug 2017 |
| Crude paddles in dugout canoe |
|
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| Sandpaper descriptor |
LA Times Daily |
28 May 2017 |
| Sandpaper descriptor |
The Washington Post |
28 May 2017 |
| Unrefined blades in church |
|
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| Rough track by the sound of it |
|
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| Lacking refinement |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Feb 2017 |
| Tasteless programme on the radio |
Irish Times Crosaire |
25 Jan 2017 |
| Sandpaper descriptor |
|
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| Rough |
|
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| Rough; unrefined |
The Times Concise |
07 Dec 2016 |
| Firm behind, in need of a polishing |
|
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| Bawdy series of lectures on the radio |
|
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| Like beard hair, texturewise |
New York Times |
03 Aug 2016 |
| Like much locker room language |
New York Times |
17 Jun 2016 |
| Like a rasp |
Universal |
13 May 2016 |
| Harsh |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 Mar 2016 |
| Ill-mannered |
Newsday |
20 Mar 2016 |
| Rough plan, so it's said |
|
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| Sandpaper grade |
USA Today |
24 Jan 2016 |
| Like much locker room language |
|
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| Like beard hair, texturewise |
|
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| Sandpaper grade |
|
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| File rating |
USA Today |
02 Aug 2015 |
| Obscene programme for the audience |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Jul 2015 |
| Uncouth |
LA Times Daily |
10 May 2015 |
| Vulgar |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Mar 2015 |
| Like a woodworker's rasp |
LA Times Daily |
16 Feb 2015 |
| Like some sandpaper |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
16 Jan 2015 |
| File rating |
|
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| Unsuitable for delicate ears |
|
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| Like a woodworker's rasp |
|
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| Uncouth |
|
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| Like some sandpaper |
|
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| Ill-mannered |
|
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| Rough path, according to hearsay |
|
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| Rewrote a score that's lacking refinement |
|
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| Lacking manners |
|
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| Boorish |
|
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| Not smooth |
|
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| Far from finely ground |
|
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| Hardly refined |
|
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| Crude |
|
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| Unpolished |
|
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| Unpolished |
|
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| Rough or vulgar |
|
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| Like a hair shirt |
|
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| Unfit for younger ears |
|
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| Like some sandpaper |
|
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| Sandpaper choice |
|
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| Sandpaperish |
|
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| Sandpaper specification |
|
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| Like some sandpaper |
|
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| Lacking refinement |
|
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| Needing refinement |
|
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| Rough around the edges |
|
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| Not polished |
|
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| Rough, as sandpaper |
|
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| Unrefined |
|
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| Vulgar |
|
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| Unsuitable for mixed company |
|
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| Not fine-grained |
|
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| Not cultured |
|
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| Ill-bred |
|
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| Needing polishing |
|
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| Like some sandpaper |
|
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| Grating |
|
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| Not refined |
|
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| Boorish |
|
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| Churlish |
|
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| Sandpaper choice |
|
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| Unrefined |
|
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| Crass |
|
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| Using one's shirtsleeve as a napkin, e.g. |
|
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| Churlish |
|
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| Not refined |
|
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| Rough |
|
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| Indelicate |
|
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| Lacking etiquette |
|
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| Like some files |
|
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| Sandpaper grade |
|
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| Like a rasp file |
|
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| Rough |
|
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| Crude |
|
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| Indelicate |
|
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| Crude |
|
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| Far from finely ground |
|
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| Rough |
|
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| Unrefined |
|
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| Like a cat's tongue |
|
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| Unsmooth |
|
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| Rough-cut |
|
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| Not fine |
|
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| Like a rasp file |
|
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| Sandpaper designation |
|
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| Crude |
|
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| Like a cat's tongue |
|
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| Rough |
|
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| Rough around the edges |
|
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| Rough |
|
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| Rough around the edges |
|
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| Sandpaper rating |
|
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| Unrefined |
|
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| Common |
|
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| Common |
|
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| Indelicate |
|
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| Common |
|
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| Not refined |
|
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| Like some sandpaper |
|
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| Unrefined |
|
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| Not fine-grained |
|
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| Not smooth |
|
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| File rating |
|
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| Sandpaper grade |
|
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| Scratchy |
|
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| Unrefined |
|
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| Unrefined |
|
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| Gauche |
|
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| Indelicate |
|
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| Gauche |
|
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| Vulgar |
|
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| Grating |
|
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| Rough |
|
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| Harsh |
|
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| Churlish |
|
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| Common |
|
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| Rough |
|
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| Like a cat's tongue |
|
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| Unrefined |
|
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| Vulgar |
|
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| Scratchy |
|
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| Loutish |
|
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| Harsh |
|
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| Crude |
|
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| Gross |
|
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| Ribald |
|
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| Rough |
|
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| Inelegant |
|
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| Lacking delicacy |
|
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| Not subtle. |
|
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| Not refined. |
|
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| Unrefined. |
|
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| Mean. |
|
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| Gross. |
|
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| Unpolished |
|
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| Like some humor. |
|
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| Rough. |
|
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| Unpolished. |
|
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| Raucous. |
|
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| Like some hair. |
|
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