Hard
Crossword Clue and Answers

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Publications

  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Wednesday, 24 Nov 2021
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Monday, 30 Aug 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Thursday, 19 Aug 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Wednesday, 12 Aug 2020
  • The New York Times Crossword - Sunday, 24 May 2020
  • The Guardian Quick - Wednesday, 16 Oct 2019
  • The New York Times Crossword - Tuesday, 12 Feb 2019
  • The New York Times Crossword - Saturday, 10 Nov 2018
  • The New York Times Crossword - Friday, 2 Mar 2018

Crossword Answers

4 letters

SURD
A consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords

FIRM
The members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a brokerage house"

ATIT

5 letters

CIDER
A beverage made from juice pressed from apples

RIGID
Designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

STONY
Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"

HEAVY
A serious (or tragic) role in a play

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

STERN
Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"

SOLID
Uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks; "a solid line across the page"; "solid sheets of water"

6 letters

STRONG
Being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"

STEELY
Resembling steel in hardness

SEVERE
Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"

FLINTY
Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"

FIRMLY
With firmness; "held hard to the railing"

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"

7 letters

HEAVILY
With great force; "she hit her arm heavily against the wall"

ONEROUS
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"

OPEROSE
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"

COMPACT
A small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse

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

8 letters

OBDURATE
Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

SEVERELY
Causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"

GRUELING
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"

UNVOICED
Not made explicit; "the unexpressed terms of the agreement"; "things left unsaid"; "some kind of unspoken agreement"; "his action is clear but his reason remains unstated"

TOILSOME
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"

KNOCKOUT
Eliminate; "knock out a target"

ROCKLIKE
Hard as granite; "a granitic fist"

9 letters

HERCULEAN
Displaying superhuman strength or power; "herculean exertions"

FATIGUING

STRENUOUS
Taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt

PUNISHING
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"

STEELLIKE

VOICELESS
Uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers"

GRUELLING
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"

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"

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

10 letters

UNYIELDING
Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

RESENTMENT
A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

FORCEFULLY
With full force; "we are seeing this film too late to feel its original impact forcefully"

11 letters

COMPLICATED
Difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"

GRANITELIKE
Hard as granite; "a granitic fist"

INSENSITIVE
Not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation"

IMPERMEABLE
Preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through; "impermeable stone"; "an impermeable layer of scum"; "a coat impermeable to rain"

INTEMPERATE
Given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker"

12 letters

BACKBREAKING
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"

CONCENTRATED
Gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore"

13 letters

INTEMPERATELY
Indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"