Last seen in:
- The Times - Concise - Times Concise No 9381
- Thomas Joseph - King Feature Syndicate - Jun 5 2023
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 30,255 - Mar 23 2023
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 30,019 - Jun 21 2022
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 30,006 - Jun 6 2022
- Thomas Joseph - King Feature Syndicate - Mar 16 2022
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 29,828 - Nov 9 2021
- Eugene Sheffer - King Feature Syndicate - Jul 20 2021
- Thomas Joseph - King Feature Syndicate - Jul 19 2021
- Newsday.com - Oct 11 2020
Related Clues:
- With coarse hair, by the sound of it, one may get to be 2 down at last
- It makes the criminal angry to lose his head
- Soft, cross and crooked on the water
- A peril of the sea, as this might make it
- A rough customer has rough locks, by the sound of it
- It makes him cross to lose his head being one for the sea
- He'll be hanged if he'll cross off his head and get cross
- Rip it up and swallowed it in a criminal manner
- It's criminal so to put a rodent in the pie
- Cross off the head of the criminal and cross what's left
- If he lost his head the villain, I reckon, would also lose his temper
- Cross off the crook's head; that'll make him cross
- It made the criminal angry at being beheaded
- Such a tripe becomes a crook
- 'The pirate has not got fine locks, by the sound of it (7)'