Demanding
The crossword clue "Demanding" is answered by STERN, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
STERN
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STERN answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- INSISTENT (4 uses in xd)
- ARDUOUS (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for STERN
Every other clue in this collection answered by STERN, most used first.
- Back of a boat - used 59 times, most recently in 2024
- Strict - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Violinist Isaac - used 38 times, most recently in 2014
- Uncompromising - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Severe - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Unyielding - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
- Austere - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Back of a ship - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Harsh - used 26 times, most recently in 2021
- Exacting - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Forbidding. - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Boat's back - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Hard-nosed - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Ship's rear - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Back in the navy - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Unsmiling - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Boat back - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Back of the boat - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Very strict - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Bow's opposite - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Far from lenient - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Rudder's locale - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Shock jock Howard - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Back at sea? - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Inexorable - used 11 times, most recently in 1997
- Noted violinist. - used 11 times, most recently in 1991
- Unrelenting - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Rudder's place - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Stem's opposite - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
- Draconian - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Rigorous - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Back - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Firm - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Hardly lenient - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Iron-fisted - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- No-nonsense - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Rear - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
- Unbending - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Boat section - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Inflexible - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Like a disciplinarian - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Like disciplinarians - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Not lenient - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Rear of a ship - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Sailor's rear - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Stringent - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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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.
- Emotionally demanding - NEEDY, used 20 times
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