Hard-___ (tough)
The crossword clue "Hard-___ (tough)" is answered by NOSED, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NOSED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOSED answer page.
Used 11 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for NOSED
Every other clue in this collection answered by NOSED, most used first.
- Snooped (around) - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Snooped - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Pried - used 16 times, most recently in 2014
- "Rudolph the Red-___ Reindeer" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Nuzzled - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
- Pried (into) - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- ___ around (snooped) - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Barely beat, with "out" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Edged (out) - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Was a snoop - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Poked (around) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Works hard - TOILS, used 80 times
- Hard work - LABOR, used 38 times
- Hard stuff - BOOZE, used 36 times
- Hard to climb - STEEP, used 36 times
- Hit hard - SMITE, used 35 times
- Tough puzzle - POSER, used 30 times
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