Crossword-Solution: STUSS 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Thus because he was not only strong and brutal, but had a sort of ability and some education, Dopey Jack quickly rose to a position of minor leadership--had his own incipient "gang," his own "lobbygows." His following increased as he rose in gangland, and finally he came to be closely associated with Murtha himself on one hand and the "guns" and other criminals of the underworld who frequented the stuss games, where they gambled away the products of their crimes, on the other.

Are you game for trying to get into the stuss joint?" He said it with such determination to go himself that I did not refuse.

Garrick rose, stretched himself, yawned as though bored, and together we lounged out into the public hall, just as someone from the outside clamoured for admission to the stuss joint through the strong door.

Though we had done nothing but attempt to get into the stuss room, ostensibly as players, the crowd in the cafe was pressing forward.

And why? Because a week ago Max eats some _stuss_ in Bridgetown, y'understand, which he is sick in bed for three days.