Last seen in:
- Canadiana - Dec 19 2022
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,344 - Jul 12 2019
- Universal - Sep 12 2017
- New York Times - Jul 14 2016
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 27,448 - Mar 27 2014
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 13,628 - Jan 13 2014
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 27,119 - Mar 7 2013
- Canadiana - Mar 19 2012
- Canadiana - Dec 19 2011
- New York Times - Jan 19 2011
Related Clues:
- Showing no mercy
- Awful dead end in the lab up there
- Really, really tough
- Aftershave contracts boxer that's tough
- Severe, as weather
- Senselessly cruel
- Cold-blooded
- Harsh, merciless
- Savage, but extremely honest
- Very dry - a litre could make you violent
- Only extremely animal? That's about right
- Somehow it's able to be brutish
- Ivy Compton-Burnett felt all Russians were, except Chekhov
- Routine in a lab, upsetting: it's cruel
- Like an animal to be vicious