Greenhorn With Potential: "__ in the Rough"

This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from The 70's, Group 323, Puzzle 2 (Drive in Movies).

Question is: Greenhorn With Potential: "__ in the Rough"

and the answer is: DIAMOND

Word Meaning:

DIAMOND — (uncountable) A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.

Definitions from Wiktionary.

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