Lout loves dried grass on the counter (5)
Independent
Cryptic
#11718
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10 Across
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2024-05-01
Generating...
I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:
OO (zero = love in tennis scoring, so two of them = loves) + HAY (dried grass), all reversed (on the counter). Slang for a coarse and uncultured person, from the name of a race of human-like brutes in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.