American cleaner used to be hard to tease (7)

Independent Cryptic #12012 | 6 Down | 2025-04-09
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

WAS (used to be) + H (hard, when describing pencil lead) + RAG (to tease)

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