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Rough and ready boy plucked from obscurity and transformed (6)

Ross

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rustic

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(Other definitions for rustic that I've seen before include "Of the countryside and country folk" , "Peasant; roughly made" , "To do with the countryside, or made of rough timber" , "clodhopper" , "Rural, countrified" .)

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