Hardly lenient
The crossword clue "Hardly lenient" is answered by STERN, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. 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 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- Demanding - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Firm - 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
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.
- Hardly wordy - TERSE, used 31 times
- Hardly any - SCANT, used 24 times
- Hardly hidden - OVERT, used 13 times
- Hardly long-winded - TERSE, used 12 times
- Hardly oblivious - AWARE, used 12 times
- Hardly sufficient - SCANT, used 12 times
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