| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| TINDERBOX | Place of potential violence |
| spoiling | Rob (a person or a place) of goods or possessions by force or violence |
| soundings | verbal contest or confrontation, as among teenage boys or street-gang members, in which the trading of often elaborate insults and invective takes the place of physical violence |
| rend | to remove from place by violence wrest |
| pillages | Rob (a place) using violence, esp. in wartime |
| pillaging | Rob (a place) using violence, esp. in wartime |
