Saws with the grain
The crossword clue "Saws with the grain" is answered by RIPS, a 4-letter entry. Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1988. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus.
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Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1988. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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