Lout loves dried grass on the counter (5)

Independent Cryptic #11718 | 10 Across | 2024-05-01
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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.

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