Answer: ROUGH
ROUGH is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 48 times.
Referring Clues:
- It might make a bad lie
 - Sandpapery
 - Crude collar discussed (5)
 - Unedited
 - Approximate
 - Fairway boundary
 - Hardly like a walk in the park
 - Difficult
 - Like sandpaper
 - Golf-course area
 - Trying
 - Not at all smooth
 - Bumpy
 - Like life on the street
 - Unpolished
 - Scratchy
 - Golf course hazard
 - Unfinished
 - Harsh
 - Coarse
 - Like some sketches
 - Like Teddy's riders
 - Turbulent
 - With 21- and 25-Down, lacking refinement ... like this puzzle's grid?
 - Uneven, as a road
 - Golf course area
 - Not smooth
 - Abrasive
 - Homonym for ruff
 - Still in draft form
 - Rambunctious
 - Like stormy seas
 - In need of sanding
 - Destination of many a sliced drive
 - A ____ Diamond
 - Far from smooth
 - Fairway adjoiner
 - Like some sandpaper
 - *Hard time
 - Errant drive's destination
 - Like many drafts
 - Like some drafts
 - Golfer's "tall stuff"
 - In draft form
 - Where a slice might go
 - Uneven
 - Like a cat's tongue
 - Golf course part
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - August 01, 2025
 - USA Today - April 08, 2025
 - New York Times - August 07, 2024
 - USA Today - April 11, 2023
 - USA Today - July 11, 2022
 - New York Times - October 05, 2021
 - LA Times - July 03, 2021
 - New York Times - June 27, 2021
 - USA Today - May 18, 2021
 - LA Times - December 20, 2020
 - USA Today - June 24, 2020
 - Universal - February 01, 2020
 - Universal - September 25, 2019
 - USA Today - September 16, 2019
 - Universal - July 31, 2019
 - Universal - October 18, 2018
 - LA Times - January 07, 2018
 - Universal - June 13, 2017
 - Canadiana - January 02, 2017
 - USA Today - December 08, 2016
 
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