Ruffian
The crossword clue "Ruffian" is answered by MAULER, a 6-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MAULER
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MAULER answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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