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TIRUCHI:TAMILNADU: 29/01/2014:- For stand alone pic: HARSH PRACTICE FOR HORSE: A horse being whipped by a couple of persons on the dry banks of the Cauvery, under a rigorous practice on Wednesday. The training on running on the dry bed is to make it win a race....Photo: A.Muralitharan

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The Hindu Cryptic #13265 | Spinner | 23 Down

Impudent person finally faces whip (6) CLUE:

Clue explained:

: last-letter-pick Clue types

: impudent person Definitions

: AnswerSQUIRT

We need a 6-letter word that means ‘impudent person’.

‘Finally’ is a letter-pick indicator telling us to select the final letter of ‘faces’, which is S.

Another word for ‘whip’ is QUIRT, which is a leather lash used often in the Southwestern America, and comes from , the Spanish word for cord. cuerda

And that altogether spells SQUIRT, a 6-letter term for an ‘impudent person’!