| Hard-copy | 9 |
| Hard-copy error | 15 |
| Hard-core | 9 |
| Hard-core film "rating" | 33 |
| Hard-core films, for short | 26 |
| Hard-core followers, in politics | 32 |
| Hard-core, filmwise | 19 |
| Hard-covered | 12 |
| Hard-disk part | 14 |
| Hard-drive infestation | 22 |
| Hard-drive prefix | 17 |
| Hard-drive unit | 15 |
| Hard-drive units | 16 |
| Hard-driving personality | 24 |
| Hard-earned degrees | 19 |
| Hard-earned degs. | 17 |
| Hard-glazed Japanese pottery | 28 |
| Hard-hat's meal | 19 |
| Hard-headed feller? | 19 |
| Hard-heart material | 19 |
| Hard-hearted | 12 |
| Hard-hearted gal et al. | 23 |
| Hard-hearted gal in a 1924 song | 31 |
| Hard-hearted gal of songdom | 27 |
| Hard-hearted girl | 17 |
| Hard-hit ball | 13 |
| Hard-hit balls | 14 |
| Hard-hit baseball | 17 |
| Hard-hit baseballs | 18 |
| Hard-hit line drive | 19 |
| Hard-hit line drive, in baseball lingo | 38 |
| Hard-hit scoring try | 20 |
| Hard-hitting 1992 hurricane | 27 |
| Hard-hitting carpenters | 23 |
| Hard-hitting Dominican | 22 |
| Hard-hitting forecast | 21 |
| Hard-hitting Giant of legend | 28 |
| Hard-hitting guy in Chicago | 27 |
| Hard-hitting mystery writer? | 28 |
| Hard-hitting noise | 18 |
| Hard-hitting response? | 22 |
| Hard-hitting sound | 18 |
| Hard-hitting team? | 18 |
| Hard-landing sound | 18 |
| Hard-liner | 10 |
| Hard-liner of old | 17 |
| Hard-living singer James | 24 |
| Hard-luck area | 14 |
| Hard-luck case | 14 |
| Hard-luck hiker's choice? | 29 |
| Hard-luck hiker's ice-cream choice? | 39 |
| Hard-luck sphere | 16 |
| Hard-luck subject of this puzzle | 32 |
| Hard-news bit, TV-style | 23 |
| Hard-nosed | 10 |
| Hard-packed ski run | 19 |
| Hard-pressed | 12 |
| Hard-rock band named for an inventor | 36 |
| Hard-rock center | 16 |
| Hard-rock center? | 17 |
| Hard-rock connection | 20 |
| Hard-rock connection? | 21 |
| Hard-rock connector | 19 |
| Hard-rock filler | 16 |
| Hard-rock link | 14 |
| Hard-rock middle | 16 |
| Hard-shell clam | 15 |
| Hard-shelled critter | 20 |
| Hard-shelled edible | 19 |
| Hard-shelled fruit | 18 |
| Hard-shelled palm fruits | 24 |
| Hard-shelled seed | 17 |
| Hard-time crime | 15 |
| Hard-to-accept consequence, metaphorically | 42 |
| Hard-to-accept result, figuratively | 35 |
| Hard-to-acquire album | 21 |
| Hard-to-approach sort | 21 |
| Hard-to-approach type, perhaps | 30 |
| Hard-to-beat quartet | 20 |
| Hard-to-believe story | 21 |
| Hard-to-block jumper, in hoops | 30 |
| Hard-to-break hold | 18 |
| Hard-to-break plates | 20 |
| Hard-to-call contests | 21 |
| Hard-to-characterize type | 25 |
| Hard-to-chew candy | 18 |
| Hard-to-chew piece of meat | 26 |
| Hard-to-clean floor covers | 26 |
| Hard-to-climb entrance stairway? | 32 |
| Hard-to-comb hair | 17 |
| Hard-to-combine gas | 19 |
| Hard-to-control impulse | 23 |
| Hard-to-control impulses | 24 |
| Hard-to-decide cases | 20 |
| Hard-to-decide predicaments | 27 |
| Hard-to-define element | 22 |
| Hard-to-define influence | 24 |
| Hard-to-describe feeling | 24 |
| Hard-to-eat-just-one item | 25 |
| Hard-to-erase stuff | 19 |