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Cutting Hedges Optional Sense Avoiding The Thorny Bits Crossword Clue

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adjective satellite

• tending to select; characterized by careful choice

• characterized by very careful or fastidious selection

33%6Thornycutting
adjective satellite

• capable of wounding

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

31%10 A thorny evergreen shrub often used for hedges
noun

• any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries

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