Related Clues:

• Unusual partner
• Miserly
• Like a 122 Across
• Tough to take
• Willfully tightening the screws, say
• Like an arctic winter
• Not lenient
• Like some gossip
• More than mean
• Acerb
• Unpleasantly coarse
• Like Mr. Mustard or Joe Greene
• Merciless 'M*A*S*H' medic, with 19-Across?
• More than unpleasant
• Nasty, as remarks