| Cut bristles (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
12 Nov 2025 |
| Cross hairs |
Newsday |
11 Oct 2025 |
| Lose a beard |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Oct 2025 |
| Barber cut back around crown of head (5) |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Oct 2025 |
| Remove hair |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Oct 2025 |
| Son to possess smooth face? (5) |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Sep 2025 |
| Part of many a morning routine |
New York Times |
07 Sep 2025 |
| Sons need to remove stubble (5) |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Aug 2025 |
| Graze, except around entrance to holding |
The Times Cryptic |
11 Aug 2025 |
| Use razor close for a narrow squeak (5) |
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| Barber's service |
LA Times Mini |
23 Jul 2025 |
| Use a razor |
Universal |
06 Jul 2025 |
| Trim |
The Telegraph Plusword |
04 Jul 2025 |
| Remove, as a beard |
|
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| Narrow escape many men have in the morning (5) |
|
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| Remove facial hair, e.g. |
The Telegraph Plusword |
23 Jun 2025 |
| Manscape, perhaps |
New York Times |
24 May 2025 |
| Prepare Parmesan, perhaps (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
21 May 2025 |
| Cut with a razor |
Universal |
19 May 2025 |
| Don't do this to grow a beard |
The Telegraph Plusword |
03 May 2025 |
| A close ____, a near miss |
The Telegraph Plusword |
29 Apr 2025 |
| What a teenage boy who just got peach fuzz might be reluctant to do for the first time |
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| Clean ___ (complete removal of the beard) |
|
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| Use a razor |
USA Today |
17 Mar 2025 |
| Trim one's beard (5) |
|
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| Snip off top of hydrangea in exotic vase (5) |
|
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| Do the hair-removal step of an "everything shower" |
USA Today |
22 Feb 2025 |
| Cut whiskers |
|
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| Cut off scruff |
Premier Sunday |
16 Feb 2025 |
| Cut off scuff |
|
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| Barber offering |
Thomas Joseph |
23 Jan 2025 |
| Use a razor |
Universal |
15 Jan 2025 |
| Plunder hotel bar stocks |
|
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| Use a straight razor |
|
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| Daily ritual, for some men |
The Telegraph Plusword |
30 Dec 2024 |
| Guys finally get hold of barber (5) |
|
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| Barber's offering |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Nov 2024 |
| Get rid of one's shadow? |
|
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| Son to possess smooth face? |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Oct 2024 |
| Use razor |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Oct 2024 |
| Use a razor: - off his beard |
|
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| Cut a thin slice while giving quiet greeting |
|
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| Sons need to remove stubble |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Sep 2024 |
| Use razor |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Sep 2024 |
| Remove facial hair |
|
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| Slash at a 'stache, maybe |
|
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| Part of a morning routine, for some |
|
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| Trim a beard (5) |
|
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| Cut is small to suffer (5) |
|
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| E.g. eliminating round in a competition (5) |
|
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| Use a razor |
Commuter |
16 May 2024 |
| Lose one's shadow, maybe? |
|
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| Use a razor |
Commuter |
20 Mar 2024 |
| Close - - -, near miss |
Mirror Tea Time |
06 Mar 2024 |
| Lose the beard |
LA Times Mini |
04 Feb 2024 |
| Use a razor |
Commuter |
02 Feb 2024 |
| A barefaced liar would say he didn't (5) |
|
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| Farmers lastly to possess crop (5) |
|
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| Husband's trapped in bar, cut off |
The Guardian Cryptic |
24 Jan 2024 |
| Use a razor in Rosebush Avenue (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
13 Jan 2024 |
| Barbershop service |
LA Times Daily |
31 Dec 2023 |
| Use razor |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Dec 2023 |
| Son to possess smooth face? |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Dec 2023 |
| Cut very closely (5) |
|
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| Remove hair with a razor |
Puzzler Backwords |
29 Nov 2023 |
| Barber's offering |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Nov 2023 |
| Use a razor |
Newsday |
16 Oct 2023 |
| Use a 26-Down |
LA Times Daily |
27 Sep 2023 |
| Remove a beard at the barbershop, say |
|
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| Remove hair from |
The Guardian Quick |
06 Sep 2023 |
| Remove a five o'clock shadow |
USA Today |
15 Aug 2023 |
| Remove one's beard |
Newsday |
14 Aug 2023 |
| Show one's face, maybe |
LA Times Daily |
01 Jul 2023 |
| Remove one's beard |
|
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| Trim facial hair |
The Times Concise |
26 Apr 2023 |
| Clear one's head? |
New York Times |
22 Apr 2023 |
| Remove stubble |
Universal |
10 Apr 2023 |
| Barbershop service |
Newsday |
29 Sep 2022 |
| What to do to chocolate to get little curls |
USA Today |
22 Aug 2022 |
| Prepare cheese, in a way |
LA Times Daily |
13 Aug 2022 |
| Go against the grain, perhaps? |
Universal |
04 Jul 2022 |
| A close one is only good in a barbershop |
Universal |
22 Apr 2022 |
| ___ ice (dessert) |
USA Today |
07 Apr 2022 |
| Barber’s offering |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Mar 2022 |
| Use cutting-edge technology to avoid loss of nursing hospital |
|
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| Barbershop offering |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Mar 2022 |
| Lose one's goatee, in a way |
|
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| Remove whiskers |
Newsday |
21 Feb 2022 |
| Lose the beard |
Eugene Sheffer |
19 Feb 2022 |
| Lose your shadow, maybe? |
Universal |
05 Feb 2022 |
| Get rid of stubble |
USA Today |
31 Oct 2021 |
| Barbershop offering |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Jul 2021 |
| Cut closely |
Newsday |
15 Apr 2021 |
| The rich, bottom to top, are trim |
|
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| Close ___ (narrow escape) |
|
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| Remove Vandyke relic from chevaliers |
Irish Times Crosaire |
04 Feb 2021 |
| Barber’s offering |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Jan 2021 |
| Remove one's beard |
Newsday |
16 Nov 2020 |
| Paradoxically, a close one might be hair-raising |
New York Times |
19 Sep 2020 |
| Remove facial hair, say |
|
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| Get rid of, as a mustache |
Universal |
20 Jul 2020 |
| He's ripped on the outside, one very trim |
|
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| Remove one's beard |
|
|
| Reduce by a small amount |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Dec 2019 |
| Barbershop offering |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Nov 2019 |
| Barber's job |
Thomas Joseph |
19 Oct 2019 |
| Risk razor burn |
Universal |
11 Oct 2019 |
| Remove, as a beard |
|
|
| Kiss husband in bar |
|
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| Hair-losing experience |
Newsday |
05 May 2019 |
| Remove, as a beard |
Universal |
08 Mar 2019 |
| Cut off stubble |
Premier Sunday |
03 Mar 2019 |
| Get rid of stubble |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Feb 2019 |
| Son to possess smooth face? |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Jan 2019 |
| Risk razor burn |
|
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| Remove, as a beard |
|
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| Get rid of stubble |
|
|
| Sons need to remove stubble |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 Dec 2018 |
| Use a razor |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 Dec 2018 |
| Remove whiskers |
Newsday |
12 Nov 2018 |
| Get rid of stubble |
|
|
| Barber's offering |
USA Today |
21 Oct 2018 |
| Use a razor |
The Times Concise |
02 Oct 2018 |
| Remove stubble |
USA Today |
01 Oct 2018 |
| Remove growth that could be sown |
|
|
| Remove the walrus from quiet road |
Irish Times Crosaire |
13 Sep 2018 |
| Remove the stubble |
USA Today |
21 Aug 2018 |
| Third of Austrians are obliged to use plane |
|
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| Trim whiskers |
Newsday |
13 Aug 2018 |
| Pare hair |
The Washington Post Sunday |
15 Jul 2018 |
| Sweeney Todd's offering |
The Washington Post Sunday |
17 Jun 2018 |
| Remove a stubble |
Newsday |
10 Jun 2018 |
| Cut into paper-thin slices |
USA Today |
26 Jan 2018 |
| Lose one's shadow, say |
New York Times |
21 Jan 2018 |
| Touch saint with own following |
|
|
| Lose one's five o'clock shadow |
USA Today |
05 Jan 2018 |
| Lose one's five o'clock shadow |
|
|
| Barber's offering |
|
|
| Cut into paper-thin slices |
|
|
| Remove stubble |
|
|
| Remove the stubble |
|
|
| Lose one's shadow, say |
|
|
| Service from Sweeney Todd |
USA Today |
29 Dec 2017 |
| Barbershop job |
New York Times |
29 Dec 2017 |
| Remove hair |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Dec 2017 |
| Use a razor in Rosebush Avenue |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Dec 2017 |
| Trim whiskers |
LA Times Daily |
12 Dec 2017 |
| Trim whiskers |
The Washington Post |
12 Dec 2017 |
| Use a razor |
|
|
| Barbershop offering |
Jonesin |
07 Nov 2017 |
| Barbershop service |
Newsday |
20 Sep 2017 |
| Barber offering |
Thomas Joseph |
12 May 2017 |
| Lose one's shadow |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Apr 2017 |
| Remove one's whiskers |
Newsday |
03 Apr 2017 |
| Barbershop job |
|
|
| Trim whiskers |
|
|
| Service from Sweeney Todd |
|
|
| Barber cut back around crown of head |
The Telegraph Toughie |
08 Dec 2016 |
| Lose one's five o'clock shadow |
The Washington Post |
28 Nov 2016 |
| De-stubble-ize |
Newsday |
30 Jun 2016 |
| It may be close |
LA Times Daily |
27 Dec 2015 |
| Son to possess smooth face? |
|
|
| Keep bandaging crown of head, as cut |
|
|
| What most men have to do in quiet way |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Jun 2015 |
| Get rid of a five o'clock shadow |
Universal |
18 May 2015 |
| Morning activity, for some |
USA Today |
07 Apr 2015 |
| How to show your face? |
USA Today |
09 Mar 2015 |
| How to show your face? |
|
|
| Get rid of a five o'clock shadow |
|
|
| Morning activity, for some |
|
|
| It may be close |
|
|
| Thinly slice |
|
|
| Make chocolate curls |
|
|
| Tonsorial operation |
|
|
| Remove whiskers from |
|
|
| Barbershop service |
|
|
| Remove whiskers |
|
|
| Knock off heroin in bar |
|
|
| Tonsorial service |
|
|
| Barber's offering |
|
|
| Hair-razing experience? |
|
|
| Trim whiskers |
|
|
| Morning ritual, for many |
|
|
| Use a razor |
|
|
| Hairy experience |
|
|
| Trim |
|
|
| Get rid of a beard |
|
|
| Get rid of the Fu Manchu |
|
|
| Barbershop offering |
|
|
| Remove whiskers from |
|
|
| Trim |
|
|
| Neaten up in the morning |
|
|
| Lose one's shadow? |
|
|
| Remove one's whiskers |
|
|
| It may be close |
|
|
| Shed a five o'clock shadow |
|
|
| Cut close |
|
|
| Lose one's shadow, say |
|
|
| Hair-razing experience? |
|
|
| Get rid of stubble |
|
|
| Barbershop service |
|
|
| Skin smoother |
|
|
| Eliminate one's shadow? |
|
|
| It might be close |
|
|
| Tonsorial treatment |
|
|
| Eliminate the stubble |
|
|
| Eradicate the stubble |
|
|
| Remove stubble |
|
|
| Remove the stubble |
|
|
| Tonsorial offering |
|
|
| Barbershop job |
|
|
| Trim |
|
|
| Remove the stubble, e.g. |
|
|
| It may be close |
|
|
| Use a razor |
|
|
| Barbershop service |
|
|
| Pare |
|
|
| Cut closely |
|
|
| Barber offering |
|
|
| Get rid of shadow |
|
|
| Cut closely |
|
|
| Use a razor |
|
|
| It can be close |
|
|
| Make chocolate curls |
|
|
| Pare |
|
|
| Barbershop request |
|
|
| Trim |
|
|
| Make a face smoother |
|
|
| Use a razor |
|
|
| Get rid of one's stubble |
|
|
| It may be close |
|
|
| Lose one's shadow? |
|
|
| Cut closely |
|
|
| Clear the stubble |
|
|
| Clear the whiskers |
|
|
| Show your face? |
|
|
| Make a slice thin |
|
|
| Morning chore |
|
|
| Barbershop request |
|
|
| See 18 Across |
|
|
| Tonsorial treatment |
|
|
| Excise the stubble |
|
|
| Close __ (narrow escape) |
|
|
| Tonsorial offering |
|
|
| Make smooth, in a way |
|
|
| Pare |
|
|
| Eliminate one's shadow? |
|
|
| Partner of 79-Down |
|
|
| Lose the Fu Manchu |
|
|
| Barber's job |
|
|
| Barber's offering |
|
|
| Barber's service |
|
|
| Barber's work |
|
|
| Morning activity |
|
|
| Attack the whiskers |
|
|
| Get rid of the Fu Manchu |
|
|
| Get rid of a five o'clock shadow |
|
|
| It's two bits, with a haircut? |
|
|
| Cut close |
|
|
| Cut close |
|
|
| Get rid of a shadow |
|
|
| Use a plane |
|
|
| Tonsorial operation |
|
|
| Cut short |
|
|
| This can be a close one |
|
|
| Mow |
|
|
| Sweeney Todd specialty |
|
|
| Cut |
|
|
| This may be clean or close |
|
|
| Figaro's specialty |
|
|
| Remove hair |
|
|
| Graze |
|
|
| Whittle |
|
|
| Remove a beard |
|
|
| Tonsorial task |
|
|
| Shear the beard |
|
|
| Close cut |
|
|
| Plane |
|
|
| This is often close |
|
|
| Pare |
|
|
| Haircut's companion |
|
|
| Tonsorial service |
|
|
| Remove a mustache |
|
|
| Task for Figaro |
|
|
| Figaro's forte |
|
|
| Thin slice |
|
|
| Close ___ |
|
|
| A close ___ |
|
|
| Reduce, as prices |
|
|
| Reduce |
|
|
| Barbershop chore |
|
|
| Narrow escape: Colloq. |
|
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| Graze. |
|
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| Narrow miss or escape: Colloq. |
|
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| Narrow miss: Colloq. |
|
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| Barber. |
|
|
| Skim the surface of. |
|
|
| Slice thinly |
|
|
| Pass close to. |
|
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| Tonsure. |
|
|
| A close ___. |
|
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| Close ___ (narrow escape). |
|
|
| Question from the barber. |
|
|
| Slice. |
|
|
| Pare. |
|
|
| Prepare ice in a way |
|
|
| Trim closely. |
|
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| Deduct. |
|
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| TV commercial specialty. |
|
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