Clues for the word "HARD"
We've had 166 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 386 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on August 20, 2026.
Definition of hard
- superl. - Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
- superl. - Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
- superl. - Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
- superl. - Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
- superl. - Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
- superl. - Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
- superl. - Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
- superl. - Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
- superl. - Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.
- superl. - Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
- superl. - Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
- superl. - Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
- adv. - With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
- adv. - With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
- adv. - Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
- adv. - So as to raise difficulties.
- adv. - With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
- adv. - Close or near.
- v. t. - To harden; to make hard.
- n. - A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
Referring Clues
- Like Hannah's heart, in song
- Like a Friday crossword
- Like some candy
- Brainbusting
- Granitelike
- Arduous
- Stony
- Brain-busting
- Knotty
- Verifiable, as facts
- Like some cider
- Not liquidy
- Steellike
- Rocklike
- Compact
- Difficult
- "Log Cabin and ___ Cider" (William Henry Harrison slogan)
- Obdurate
- ___ as a diamond
- Like a diamond
- Strongly alcoholic
- Like whiskey, as opposed to wine
- Like a rock
- Partner of fast
- Mind-boggling
- Like some hats or knocks
- Firmly formed
- Word with copy or candy
- Not a walk in the park
- With 57-Across, a nautical command
- Tough
- "A ___ Day's Night"
- Challenging
- Like some facts
- Unlike a picnic?
- Forcefully
- "A ___ Day's Night"
- Unyielding
- Mohs scale adjective
- Word that can precede the first word of the six longest puzzle answers
- Rocky
- Impenetrable
- Tough to crack
- Tough to solve
- Troublesome
- No picnic
- Rock-like
- Thorny
- Nearly unsolvable
- Like some crosswords
- Kind of rock or candy
- Like a Saturday crossword
- Bad, like luck
- Hardly a no-brainer
- How you may find this puzzle
- Like some ciders
- No piece of cake
- Fast partner
- Like some copies and courts
- Fatiguing
- Word with boil or line
- Difficult to solve
- Flinty
- Tricky
- No walk in the park
- Brain-bruising
- Baffling
- Strong
- Fast companion
- You might give this to someone you don't like
- High on the Mohs scale
- Ready to get down, in a way
- Definitely not child's play
- Very challenging
- Demanding
- Exhausting
- Lacking empathy
- Word before candy or copy
- Copy type
- Not squishy
- Type of candy or cider
- Stern
- Like steel
- Tough to figure out
- Herculean
- Like dried cement
- Like some facts and stuff
- Rigid
- Not easily solved
- Hurry ______(Skip's command)
- With 60-Down, gotten by great effort
- A____ lesson
- Like a tough nut to crack
- Like #4 pencils
- Unlike a gut course
- Part 3 of today's quote
- Tough to learn
- Fermented
- Stiff
- Firm
- Solid
- Not soft
- Opposite of soft
- Difficult part for Elizabeth Arden
- Like some water or lemonade
- Far from easy
- Vexing
- Eddie Vedder "___ Sun"
- Kiss "(You Make Me) Rock ___"
- Difficult - firm
- Tough - laborious
- Is such wood knotty?
- Player's challenge? I sympathise
- Tiring party, breaking rocks perhaps
- Tough - difficult
- Novel by Dickens
- The exacting part of –Richard III"
- It's tough, being caught outright!
- Playing card included in #realmoney
- Novel featuring Mr Gradgrind
- Emergency lane
- Resentment
- It's tough for Spooner's warder working in the garden
- Difficult to remove top from UK's tallest building
- With the 6th 2 one is a witch - about right, a feminist!
- Drug-free hell? Bad luck!
- Aggressive pitch (not the padded sort, it's said?)
- Like verified facts
- It's tough, being deceived outright
- Word with cash or candy
- Like diamonds
- Being caught outright, is tough
- Merciless
- Causing head-scratching
- Like boozy cider
- Word before cash or copy
- Like walnut shells
- Like a rock and many a roll
- Like jawbreakers
- Like most clues that end with question marks
- Not easy
- Like super-complicated instructions
- Like nails and some candy
- Obstinate
- Such times are difficult to describe
- Challenging to figure out
- Tricky and difficult, as a puzzle
- Like Parmesan and pecorino
- "A ___ Day's Night": Beatles song
- Is such wood knotty?
- Like some seltzers
- Like the math problem 1,198 X 32,144 - 112
- #6
- Like the rocky road to the centre of Le Havre!
- Like a chestnut shell
- Like advanced calculus
- Word with copy or currency
- K) Like super tricky crosswords
- Far from a walk in the park
- Like a video game set to maximum difficulty
- Like diamonds and calculus problems
- Like a 1,000-piece monochromatic jigsaw puzzle
- Like a coconut shell
- "___ Copy"
- Like sudokus with very few given digits, generally
- Like some cheese
Last Seen In
- New York Times - August 20, 2026
- Daily American - August 03, 2026
- LA Times - July 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 29, 2026
- Daily American - July 15, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 14, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 30, 2026
- LA Times - June 03, 2026
- Daily American - June 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - May 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 24, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 19, 2026
- Daily American - March 29, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 23, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - March 09, 2026
- Daily American - February 12, 2026
- New York Times - February 09, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 27, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 11, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 05, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 27, 2025
- Daily American - August 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 14, 2025
- Daily American - July 06, 2025
- Daily American - June 21, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 12, 2025
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