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The Clue
Wearing nonslippage horseshoes (9 letter answer)
The Answer
ROUGHSHOD
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Notes
The answer ROUGHSHOD is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
ROUGHSHOD as an adjective:
1. (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
2. (barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious) = (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
3. (heavy-handed, roughshod) = unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"