Crossword Clue:

a brutal ruffian

Answer	Crossword Clue
THUGGISH	Like a ruffian
ROWDY	Behaving like a ruffian
YOB	Ruffian, to a Brit

ALEX	Ruffian in "A Clockwork Orange"
DIADEMBONES	Adornments for a brutal dictator's crown?
TAMERLANE	Brutal Mongol conqueror, or a Poe poem
BEIZBOL	A "brutal" game, according to the Russians.
USSR	Fighter of a brutal and ineffective ten-year war in Afghanistan