The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SOAPSTONE
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More clues leading to the result SOAPSTONE
- Soft rock beginning to shake pensioners — stress down below
- Material for carving kinky teaspoons
- Paste soon turns to mineral
- French chalk adding quality to Palmolive and Lux?
- Marker for style of TV serial?
- Soft rock gets Blair in a lather?
- Empty space filled by pensioners with a lot of French chalk
- Pensioners smothered in brownish-grey form of talc
- French chalk polluted teaspoons
- Soft rock offering Coronation Street’s sound quality?
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What does SOAPSTONE mean?
SOAPSTONE noun- A soft rock, rich in talc, also containing serpentine and either magnetite, dolomite or calcite
- To scrub with soapstone.