Rub the wrong way
The crossword clue "Rub the wrong way" is answered by NETTLE, a 6-letter entry. Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus.
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NETTLE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NETTLE answer page.
Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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