Crossword-Solution: SCRUFFS 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

What does it matter if he scruffs his approach? What does it matter if he takes three putts? He has the memory of that drive, the unexpected, thrilling feel of it in arms and body, the tingling vision of the day when he will find out how he did it, and be able to repeat at will! That keeps him going--that, and a trophy he once achieved by winning the beaten eight division of the sixth sixteen.

Instead, he merely scratched a comparatively unimportant capillary, and feels mighty sorry for himself when the giant turns and scruffs him by the neck." Leaning over the bridge-rails, the Sub startled his companion by bellowing in a voice loud enough to be heard a mile away: "On look-outs! Stand by bow and stern lights!" The _Capella_ was making preparations for the night.

For all their spitting and clawing, he picked them up by the scruffs of their necks, stuffed two of them into his capacious pockets, carried the other two in his fist, and made his way hastily down the mountain, keeping a watchful eye over his shoulder, lest the mother-lynx should happen back from her hunting and attempt a rescue.