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1 | 99% | 6 | Exact Match! | |
2 | 33% | 9 | Cutting hedges optional — sense avoiding the thorny bits? | |
3 | 27% | 10 | Can have both thorny and non-thorny varieties | |
Thorny Cutting Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "BARBED" which means:
- adjective satellite
- • Capable of wounding
- • Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. verb
- • To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
- • To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.
- • To cut (hair).
- • To shave or dress the beard of.
- • To clip; to mow. adjective
- • Having barbs
- • Bearded (also applied to roses, referring to the leaves between the petals).
- • (of language, etc.) deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
- • (of a horse) accoutered with defensive armor; barded.
An example sentence would be:
- • "He wore a barbed wire bracelet around his wrist."
- • "The cat's fur had tiny barbed hairs that stuck to everything."
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The Guardian Quick13 May 2015 | Down 16 | |
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