Hit hard
The crossword clue "Hit hard" is answered by SMASH, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. 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
SMASH
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SMASH answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. 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 SMASH
Every other clue in this collection answered by SMASH, most used first.
- Big hit - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Huge hit - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Huge success - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Tennis stroke - used 22 times, most recently in 2013
- Pulverize - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Runaway hit - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Tennis shot - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
- Break into bits - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Break into pieces - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Break into smithereens - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Big success - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Crush - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Shatter - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
- Flop's opposite - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Blockbuster - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Broadway hit - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Type of hit - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Hard tennis shot - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Kind of hit - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Box office hit - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Broadway success - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Hit show - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Overhead tennis shot - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Shatter to bits - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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
- 1972 Bill Withers hit - USEME, used 31 times
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