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noun • a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles • protective covering made of metal and used in combat • tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant verb • equip with armor | ||||||||
| 55% | 6 | Badly mauled or wounded | ||||||
noun • a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges verb • split (wood) with a maul and wedges • injure badly by beating | ||||||||
| 42% | 13 | Writer badly mauled (but not dead) getting signal to enter burrow | ||||||
noun • a playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the theater of the absurd (1906-1989) | ||||||||
Protected Like Centrally Curled Up Creature Raptor Mauled Badly Crossword Clue
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ARMOUR which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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ARMOUR
Updated: October 14, 2023
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