| Goon (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
03 Nov 2025 |
| Rough tough lout (4) |
Puzzler |
25 Sep 2025 |
| "Goodfellas" tough |
LA Times Mini |
21 Aug 2025 |
| Brutal lout |
Puzzler Backwords |
28 Jul 2025 |
| Rough haul, including heroin (4) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
24 Jul 2025 |
| Criminal, hooligan |
Puzzler Backwords |
23 Jul 2025 |
| Goon |
USA Today Quick |
15 Jul 2025 |
| Violent criminal |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Jul 2025 |
| Ruffian |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Jul 2025 |
| Street ruffian |
|
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| Brutal ruffian |
Puzzler |
30 May 2025 |
| A Hindi word meaning rogue, thief or cheat gave us what word? (4) |
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| Bully-boy, hoodlum (4) |
|
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| Brute in loincloth? Ugly! (4) |
|
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| Ruffian, hoodlum |
|
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| Tough day finally ending |
The Times Cryptic |
19 Apr 2025 |
| His victims got it in the neck |
|
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| Goon with a gun |
|
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| A hoodlum t'embrace (4) |
|
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| Lout with the endless sound of caveman? (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
02 Mar 2025 |
| Brutal lout |
Puzzler Backwords |
28 Feb 2025 |
| Criminal, hooligan |
Puzzler Backwords |
23 Feb 2025 |
| Started off as the hold-up gangster (4) |
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| Model to embrace lout (4) |
|
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| Ruffian: violent - |
|
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| Ruffian |
The Telegraph Quick |
31 Jan 2025 |
| Tory leader has to embrace ruffian (4) |
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| Hoodlum |
Newsday |
22 Jan 2025 |
| Bully |
Puzzler Backwords |
18 Jan 2025 |
| Rough tough giving nothing away |
The Times Mephisto |
29 Dec 2024 |
| Roughneck |
Mirror Classic |
27 Dec 2024 |
| The first to embrace hooligan (4) |
|
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| Brutal lout |
Puzzler Backwords |
14 Nov 2024 |
| A cutthroat Kali worshipper (4) |
|
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| Ruffian |
Puzzler Backwords |
28 Oct 2024 |
| He's rough, tough, loveless and confused |
|
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| His victim got it in the neck |
|
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| Violent ruffian |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
15 Sep 2024 |
| Violent ruffian, gangster (4) |
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| Hoodlum, gangster |
|
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| Yob |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Sep 2024 |
| Time to embrace gangster (4) |
|
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| Model to embrace ruffian (4) |
|
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| Hoodlum |
The Sun Mini |
24 Aug 2024 |
| Hooligan |
Mirror Quick |
20 Aug 2024 |
| The first to embrace lout |
Mirror Cryptic |
20 Aug 2024 |
| Ruffian |
The Times Concise |
15 Aug 2024 |
| Have little time to embrace a hoodlum (4) |
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| Ruffian |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Jul 2024 |
| Raging tough, nothing less? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
02 Jul 2024 |
| Brutal lout |
Puzzler Backwords |
21 Jun 2024 |
| Time to embrace violent ruffian |
|
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| Muscle for hire |
|
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| Criminal, hooligan |
Puzzler Backwords |
15 Jun 2024 |
| Ruffian or roughneck (4) |
|
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| Hooligan initially hiding in towing vessel |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
14 May 2024 |
| Tough time with press |
The Times Cryptic |
03 May 2024 |
| Hired goon, say |
|
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| Villain putting squeeze on the leader |
|
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| Hoodlum |
Newsday |
16 Apr 2024 |
| Ruffian, lout |
Mirror Classic |
14 Apr 2024 |
| Ruffian |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Apr 2024 |
| Hooligan in this way almost close to succeeding (4) |
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| Hot in boat? Tough! |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Mar 2024 |
| Hot in boat? Tough! (4) |
|
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| Hoodlum |
Newsday |
18 Mar 2024 |
| Back of coat with skirt and hood |
|
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| Violent man (4) |
|
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| Violent person or criminal (4) |
|
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| Criminal, hooligan |
Puzzler Backwords |
29 Feb 2024 |
| A violent ruffian (4) |
|
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| You'll find him among uncouth, ugly (4) |
|
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| Some uncouth, ugly and violent criminal (4) |
|
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| Goon for hire |
|
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| Roughneck |
The Guardian Speedy |
04 Feb 2024 |
| Brutal criminal |
|
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| Hooligan |
Mirror Quick |
31 Jan 2024 |
| The first to embrace lout |
Mirror Cryptic |
31 Jan 2024 |
| Hoodlum |
Commuter |
02 Jan 2024 |
| Violent person, especially a criminal (4) |
|
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| Ruffian bully |
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| Bully |
Puzzler Backwords |
04 Nov 2023 |
| Ruffian |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Aug 2023 |
| Time to embrace ruffian |
The Times Cryptic |
26 Jul 2023 |
| Violent criminal |
The Guardian Quick |
22 Jul 2023 |
| Hired goon |
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| Violent criminal |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Aug 2022 |
| Roughneck |
Newsday |
19 Aug 2022 |
| Heavy |
The Guardian Quick |
04 Apr 2022 |
| Bruiser |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Feb 2022 |
| Tough husband wearing drag |
The Guardian Cryptic |
02 Nov 2021 |
| Tough husband wearing drag |
|
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| Bruiser |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Aug 2021 |
| Tough husband taken on by harbour vessel |
|
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| Ruffian seen in jacket, huge |
|
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| Bully boy gets time to show some affection |
Irish Times Crosaire |
26 May 2021 |
| Is one awfully tough, without love? |
|
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| Hooligan |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 May 2021 |
| Goon |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Apr 2021 |
| Hoodlum |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Jan 2021 |
| Rowdy Yank put in hospital |
|
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| Caught by gunshot, huge bully |
|
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| Time to embrace a hoodie? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Nov 2020 |
| Violent criminal |
The Times Concise |
16 Jul 2020 |
| Rough stray caught scratching around |
The Telegraph Toughie |
15 May 2020 |
| Tough person also hot in drag |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 May 2020 |
| Muscle that's mean |
Newsday |
03 Apr 2020 |
| A tough, tense, embrace |
The Telegraph Toughie |
11 Mar 2020 |
| Mafia enforcer, e.g. |
|
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| Hired goon |
|
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| Gangster |
|
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| Time to embrace brute |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Nov 2019 |
| Violent criminal |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Nov 2019 |
| Tough time to show affection |
Irish Times Crosaire |
21 Sep 2019 |
| Ruffian |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Aug 2019 |
| Hoodlum smuggling heroin's a jerk |
|
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| Hoodlum |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Jul 2019 |
| ___ Life (Tupac tattoo) |
Jonesin |
28 May 2019 |
| Yob to embrace losing love |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Apr 2019 |
| He could be tough, lacking love? |
|
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| Villain to embrace wanting love |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Feb 2019 |
| Hood that's beginning to enfold with warmth |
The Telegraph Toughie |
08 Feb 2019 |
| Heavy Yank scoffing the last of goulash |
|
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| Thin, ugly, half-cut brute |
|
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| Goon squad member |
Universal |
28 Sep 2018 |
| Violent criminal |
Universal |
08 Aug 2018 |
| Time to embrace ruffian |
|
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| Tough hour in tower |
|
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| Roughneck |
Newsday |
11 May 2018 |
| Thunderstorm's beginning, cling to hood |
|
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| Hired enforcer |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Feb 2018 |
| Member of a goon squad |
Universal |
21 Jan 2018 |
| Hoodlum's boat circling harbour |
|
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| Mean ruffian |
Premier Sunday |
07 Jan 2018 |
| Goon squad member |
|
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| Member of a goon squad |
|
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| Violent criminal |
|
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| Goon |
|
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| Tough |
New York Times |
14 Oct 2017 |
| A ruffian, or goon |
|
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| Yank apprehends hard criminal |
|
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| Something in the middle to cling to, tough |
|
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| Brute describing big majority ousting MP in |
|
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| Yank arresting first of hoodlums, ruffian |
|
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| Tough guy |
USA Today |
19 Jul 2017 |
| Ruffian in hospital in tower |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Jun 2017 |
| Mob hoodlum |
Family Time |
05 Jun 2017 |
| Goon squad member |
USA Today |
30 May 2017 |
| He's rough, tough, loveless, confused |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 May 2017 |
| Ruffian |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
28 Apr 2017 |
| Ruffian |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Mar 2017 |
| Tip from agent to stay close to violent criminal [4] |
|
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| Frequent Edward G. Robinson role |
The Washington Post |
30 Jan 2017 |
| Goon squad member |
|
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| Tough |
|
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| Ruffian |
|
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| Tough guy |
|
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| Moss isn't in mug shots of criminal |
Irish Times Crosaire |
16 Nov 2016 |
| Brutish sort |
USA Today |
27 Sep 2016 |
| Jerk grabbing husband is violent criminal |
|
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| Ruffian |
The Washington Post |
09 Jul 2016 |
| Hired goon |
Jonesin |
07 Jun 2016 |
| Time to squeeze a criminal |
|
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| Gorilla |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Apr 2016 |
| Tough guy |
Newsday |
14 Apr 2016 |
| Yank throttling husband is ruffian |
|
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| Mob goon |
USA Today |
24 Jan 2016 |
| Mob goon |
|
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| Brutish sort |
|
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| Tough guy |
LA Times Daily |
27 Dec 2015 |
| Hooligan |
Newsday |
04 Nov 2015 |
| Ruffian |
USA Today |
17 Oct 2015 |
| Hoodlum |
Newsday |
19 Aug 2015 |
| Hired muscle |
Universal |
04 Aug 2015 |
| Yank smuggling heroin is a felon |
|
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| Time to embrace hooligan |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Jul 2015 |
| Car clutch closely similar to 9 across |
Irish Times Crosaire |
22 Jan 2015 |
| Ruffian |
|
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| Gang goon |
|
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| Goon |
|
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| Tough guy in the mob |
|
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| Hired muscle |
|
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| Tough guy |
|
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| Hoodlum |
|
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| Hooligan |
|
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| Time to keep close to hoodlum |
|
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| Ruffian hard to detect in towing vessel |
|
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| ___ Life (former hip-hop group) |
|
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| Vicious criminal |
|
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| Hood |
|
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| Muscle man |
|
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| Ruffian |
|
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| Hoodlum |
|
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| Hood with a rod |
|
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| Tough guy |
|
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| Hood with a rod |
|
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| Brutal hoodlum |
|
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| Mob hoodlum |
|
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| Goon |
|
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| Tough guy |
|
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| Ruffian |
|
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| Mob hoodlum |
|
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| Hooligan |
|
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| Goon |
|
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| Mob member |
|
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| Hired goon |
|
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| Vicious ruffian |
|
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| Heavy |
|
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| Hooligan |
|
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| Bully |
|
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| Hindi for "swindler" |
|
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| Gangland "heavy" |
|
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| Goon |
|
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| Real ruffian |
|
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| Hood |
|
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| Goon |
|
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| Gorilla |
|
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| Hood |
|
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| Vicious criminal |
|
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| Tough |
|
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| Hood |
|
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| Vicious ruffian |
|
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| Street tough |
|
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| Gangsta rapper's persona |
|
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| Tough |
|
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| Ruffian |
|
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| Hoodlum |
|
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| Hoodlum |
|
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| Bully |
|
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| Goon |
|
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| Gunsel, e.g. |
|
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| Henchman |
|
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| Hooligan |
|
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| Shark's muscle, say |
|
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| Heavy with a rod |
|
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| Ruffian |
|
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| Hoodlum |
|
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| Hoodlum |
|
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| Gorilla |
|
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| Heavy with a rod |
|
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| Heavy with a rod |
|
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| Goon |
|
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| Hood |
|
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| Goon |
|
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| Hood |
|
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| Hoodlum |
|
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| Racketeer |
|
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| Goon squad member |
|
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| Real hood |
|
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| Goon |
|
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| Criminal tough guy |
|
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| Gorilla |
|
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| Plugugly |
|
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| Mugger |
|
|
| Pesci character, often |
|
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| Goon |
|
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| Mob menace |
|
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| Criminal |
|
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| Hoodlum |
|
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| 48 Crook |
|
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| Racketeer |
|
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| Hoodlum |
|
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| 55-Across, maybe |
|
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| Mafia soldier |
|
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| Hooligan |
|
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| Mob member |
|
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| Ruffian |
|
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| Moll's date |
|
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| Mugger |
|
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| Park lurker |
|
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| Ruffian. |
|
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| Predatory type. |
|
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| Criminal of sorts. |
|
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| Candidate for the rogues' gallery. |
|
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| Criminal. |
|
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| Dacoit. |
|
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| Assassin. |
|
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| Cutthroat. |
|
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