Difficult
Crossword Clue and Answers

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We most recently saw this clue in The Sun Cryptic.

We deem Difficult to be a VERY COMMON crossword clue as we've seen it more than 26 times in a variety of crossword publications.

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Publications

  • The Sun Cryptic - Wednesday, 1 Dec 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Thursday, 9 Sep 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Saturday, 4 Sep 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Friday, 9 Jul 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Tuesday, 8 Jun 2021
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Thursday, 6 May 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Tuesday, 13 Apr 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Friday, 26 Mar 2021
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021
  • The Mirror Quick - Monday, 15 Mar 2021
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Wednesday, 17 Feb 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Thursday, 12 Nov 2020

Crossword Answers

4 letters

HARD
(of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"

5 letters

MESSY
Dirty and disorderly; "a mussy fussy bedroom"; "a child's messy eating habits"

ROUGH
Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

DODGY Howard
Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker

TOUGH
Someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

6 letters

TRICKY
Having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"

THORNY
Bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights"

UPHILL
The upward slope of a hill

ORNERY
Having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

STICKY
Hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather"

KNOTTY
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

TRYING
Extremely irritating to the nerves; "nerve-racking noise"; "the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the office"

7 letters

AWKWARD
Socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers"

ONEROUS Mike Smallman
Not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule"

ARDUOUS
Difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill; "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary"

PARLOUS
Fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"

COMPLEX
A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts; "the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town"

NOTEASY

TESTING
An examination of the characteristics of something; "there are laboratories for commercial testing"; "it involved testing thousands of children for smallpox"

9 letters

LABORIOUS
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"

DEMANDING
Requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding"

10 letters

PERPLEXING
Lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement"

11 letters

CHALLENGING
Requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

TROUBLESOME
Difficult to deal with; "a troublesome infection"; "a troublesome situation"

12 letters

UNMANAGEABLE
Hard to control; "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation"

13 letters

PROBLEMATICAL Howard
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

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