| Hard-to-describe feeling | 24 |
| Hard-to-define influence | 24 |
| Hard-to-define element | 22 |
| Hard-to-decide predicaments | 27 |
| Hard-to-control impulses | 24 |
| Hard-to-control impulse | 23 |
| Hard-to-clean floor covers | 26 |
| Hard-to-chew piece of meat | 26 |
| Hard-to-characterize type | 25 |
| Hard-shelled palm fruits | 24 |
| Hard-news bit, TV-style | 23 |
| Hard-luck hiker's choice? | 29 |
| Hard-living singer James | 24 |
| Hard-hitting response? | 22 |
| Hard-hitting mystery writer? | 28 |
| Hard-hitting guy in Chicago | 27 |
| Hard-hitting Giant of legend | 28 |
| Hard-hitting Dominican | 22 |
| Hard-hitting carpenters | 23 |
| Hard-hitting 1992 hurricane | 27 |
| Hard-hearted gal of songdom | 27 |
| Hard-hearted gal et al. | 23 |
| Hard-glazed Japanese pottery | 28 |
| Hard-driving personality | 24 |
| Hard-drive infestation | 22 |
| Hard-core films, for short | 26 |
| Hard-boiled Mr. Bungle song? | 28 |
| Hard-boiled film genre | 22 |
| Hard-boiled crime genre | 23 |
| Hard-bargainer's words | 26 |
| Hard-ass bosses, in hyperbole | 29 |
| Hard, unctuous preparation | 26 |
| Hard, thickened skin area | 25 |
| Hard, silvery-gray metal | 24 |
| Hard, pungent Italian cheese | 28 |
| Hard, protective shell | 22 |
| Hard, dry one-seeded fruit | 26 |
| Hard, dry Italian cheese | 24 |
| Hard, brilliant varnish | 23 |
| Hard ___ (two, please) | 22 |
| Hard ___ (nautical term) | 24 |
| Hard __: sailor's alert | 27 |
| Hard workers' milieu? | 25 |
| Hard workers get into it | 24 |
| Hard worker's output | 24 |
| Hard worker at boring tasks | 27 |
| Hard work, so to speak | 22 |
| Hard work, metaphorically | 25 |
| Hard work of making it | 22 |
| Hard work may be part of it | 27 |
| Hard work doing some math? | 26 |
| Hard word for Eliza Doolittle | 29 |
| Hard water, in Hamburg | 22 |
| Hard twisted cotton thread | 26 |
| Hard to swallow, perhaps | 24 |
| Hard to separate, perhaps | 25 |
| Hard to see through, say | 24 |
| Hard to saw, as some pine | 25 |
| Hard to read by, as light | 25 |
| Hard to pass on, as a highway | 29 |
| Hard to look at, in a way | 25 |
| Hard to keep in stock, say | 26 |
| Hard to hold, in a way | 22 |
| Hard to go barefoot on | 22 |
| Hard to get through to | 22 |
| Hard to get along with | 22 |
| Hard to get a reaction out of | 29 |
| Hard to find, to Hadrian | 24 |
| Hard to find, to Caesar | 23 |
| Hard to find in Latin? | 22 |
| Hard to dispute, as a theory | 28 |
| Hard to combine, chemically | 27 |
| Hard to climb, perhaps | 22 |
| Hard to chew, as steak | 22 |
| Hard to catch, in a way | 23 |
| Hard to believe, as a tale | 26 |
| Hard to believe, as a story | 27 |
| Hard times, metaphorically | 26 |
| Hard times for batters | 22 |
| Hard time with a fastener? | 26 |
| Hard throw, in baseball | 23 |
| Hard thing to walk on? | 22 |
| Hard thing to pull off | 22 |
| Hard thing to do in a jam? | 26 |
| Hard thing to diagnose | 22 |
| Hard tattoo to misspell | 23 |
| Hard show to get tickets for | 28 |
| Hard shot on the diamond | 24 |
| Hard rocker's pillow? | 25 |
| Hard rock fan's plea? | 25 |
| Hard Rock establishment | 23 |
| Hard Rock Café souvenirs | 27 |
| Hard Rock Café purchases | 27 |
| Hard red winter and durum | 25 |
| Hard place to look down from | 28 |
| Hard place to find on Oahu? | 27 |
| Hard pencils to sharpen | 23 |
| Hard pencil-lead rating | 23 |
| Hard part of mathematics? | 25 |
| Hard outer covering of a seed | 29 |