Tug hard
The crossword clue "Tug hard" is answered by YANK, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
YANK
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YANK answer page.
Used 14 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for YANK
Every other clue in this collection answered by YANK, most used first.
- Tug - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Pull hard - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
- Jerk - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Sharp pull - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Pull sharply - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Pull suddenly - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Pull - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Sharp tug - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- American, to a Brit - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Big jerk - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Sudden pull - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Tug sharply - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Tug (on) - 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.
- Hard to find - RARE, used 196 times
- Work hard - TOIL, used 183 times
- Working hard - ATIT, used 149 times
- Hard work - TOIL, used 73 times
- Tug-of-war need - ROPE, used 72 times
- Hard to come by - RARE, used 67 times
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