The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word TATTOOIST
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More clues leading to the result TATTOOIST
- Rubbish also is written on top of table in permanent marker?
- One may have designs on your body
- One pointedly engaged in enhancing body image?
- Needle-worker I toast with tot in drunken state
- He leaves a permanent impression on one
- One draws on people from Edinburgh Festival event and its organisation
- My work’s hard to shift ?? I’m so OTT, at it frantically!
- One who’s got designs on someone – cheap and nasty stuff as well, at first
- Artist whose work is barely shown?
- Artist first providing support for military show
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