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Has a grating voice (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rasps

(Other definitions for rasps that I've seen before include "Scrapes" , "speaks hoarsely" , "fruit briefly" , "Jars" , "Coarse files" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.
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