Hard work
The crossword clue "Hard work" is answered by SWEAT, a 5-letter entry. Used 21 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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SWEAT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SWEAT answer page.
Used 21 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SWEAT
Every other clue in this collection answered by SWEAT, most used first.
- Perspire - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Perspiration - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Work byproduct - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Worry - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Hard work, so to speak - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Worry about - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Brow beads - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- "Don't ___ the small stuff!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Blood, __, and tears - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- It pours from pores - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Nature's coolant - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Workout output - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Worry about, informally - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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
- Lab work - TESTS, used 70 times
- Work ___ - ETHIC, used 65 times
- Michelangelo work - PIETA, used 54 times
- Putting to work - USING, used 44 times
- Verdi work - OPERA, used 43 times
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