Tough
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

BAD
Nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"

NUT
Egyptian goddess of the sky

4 letters

GOON
Continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"

SPOT
An act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"

HARD
(of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"

HOOD
(zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal

PUNK
Rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock

THUG
An aggressive and violent young criminal

5 letters

HARDY
English novelist and poet (1840-1928)

MACHO
A male exhibiting or characterized by machismo

ROWDY
Disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers"

BULLY
A hired thug

6 letters

STRONG
Being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"

ROBUST
Rough and crude; "a robust tale"

KNOTTY
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

SINEWY
(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms"

STURDY
Substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal"

GRITTY
Willing to face danger

RUGGED
Having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"

7 letters

NOTEASY

RUFFIAN
A cruel and brutal fellow

DURABLE
Very long lasting; "less durable rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys"; "the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent"

GRISTLY
Difficult to chew

ELUSIVE
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

HOODLUM
An aggressive and violent young criminal

8 letters

BAFFLING
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

ROWDYISH

HOOLIGAN
A cruel and brutal fellow

BULLYBOY
A swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction

LEATHERY
Resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable

9 letters

HARDNOSED

RUFFIANLY
Violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs"

DIFFICULT
Hard to control; "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation"

RESILIENT
Elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf"

10 letters

UNYIELDING
Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

HARDBITTEN

11 letters

PROBLEMATIC
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

HARDASNAILS

13 letters

PROBLEMATICAL
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"