Tough riddle
The crossword clue "Tough riddle" is answered by POSER, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2003. 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
POSER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the POSER answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for POSER
Every other clue in this collection answered by POSER, most used first.
- Baffling question - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Tough puzzle - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Tough question - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Tricky puzzle - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Toughie - used 18 times, most recently in 2019
- Conundrum - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
- Tough nut to crack - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Wannabe - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Baffling problem - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
- Riddle - used 13 times, most recently in 2011
- Puzzle - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Puzzling problem - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Tough problem - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Baffler - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Enigma - used 8 times, most recently in 2004
- Model - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
- Baffling riddle - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Brainteaser - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Knotty problem - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Pretender - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Tough nut - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
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.
- Tough tests - ORALS, used 19 times
- In a tough spot - TREED, used 17 times
- Tough to climb - STEEP, used 16 times
- Tough tissue - SINEW, used 12 times
- Hard-___ (tough) - NOSED, used 11 times
- Tough to resolve - MESSY, used 11 times
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