Harsh or severe (8) |
Mirror Classic |
15 Aug 2025 |
Exact reason I got offered role of undersecretary secret, we've established |
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Stern |
Mirror Tea Time |
02 May 2025 |
Unsparing way I go right for it in turning sour (8) |
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Severe or stringent |
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Cook over fire, almost tough |
The Times Sunday Cryptic |
03 Nov 2024 |
Exact, thorough (8) |
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Hard to get regular characters in train to travel to Romania with us |
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Unsparing, harsh (8) |
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It's harsh, right? Is our go wrong, then? (8) |
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Demanding |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Jun 2024 |
Scrupulous doctor able to absorb material without pressure |
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Accurate equipment with ring gets ours adjusted (8) |
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Inflexible gear old American soldiers carried |
The Times Cryptic |
16 Oct 2023 |
Thoroughgoing |
The Times Concise |
12 Sep 2023 |
Tough equipment letting in water after top's removed |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 Aug 2020 |
Meticulous in dress, old setters welcoming run out |
The Telegraph Toughie |
09 Jul 2020 |
Severe operatic prince in endless stir |
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Very strict set-up or, occasionally, roguish |
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Painstakingly careful and accurate |
Irish Times Simplex |
15 Sep 2018 |
Spartan outfit not waterproof with cap removed |
The Telegraph Toughie |
24 Nov 2017 |
Extremely thorough |
The Times Concise |
25 Aug 2017 |
Fixed equipment like blotting paper, not soft |
The Times Cryptic |
06 Jul 2017 |
Severe Russian seen by river -- English river largely |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 Feb 2017 |
Strictly accurate equipment letting in water, though no opening |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Dec 2016 |
Allowing no deviation from a standard |
Irish Times Simplex |
20 Dec 2016 |
Severe |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 May 2015 |
Demanding |
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Disciplined |
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Harsh or severe |
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Harsh or severe |
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Inexorable |
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Harsh. |
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