When solvers have encountered “Hard work” in the past, these answers were used successfully in crossword completions. Each one is based on known pairings between clue and entry.
Answers:
- INDUSTRY
- TOIL
- GRAFT
- SLOG
- LABOR
- LABOUR
- EFFORT
- ARDUOUS
- ELBOWGREASE
- SWEAT
- TRAVAIL
- MOIL
- ALLGO
- EXERTION
- LABORS
Synonyms and Definitions
INDUSTRY
- Synonyms: diligence, industriousness, manufacture
TOIL
- Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, travail
GRAFT
- Synonyms: bribery, engraft, grafting, ingraft, transplant
SLOG
- Synonyms: footslog, keep ones nose to the grindstone, keep ones shoulder to the wheel, pad, peg away, plod, plug away, slug, swig, tramp, trudge
LABOR
- Synonyms: childbed, confinement, department of labor, dol, drive, labor movement, lying-in, parturiency, project, proletariat, push, task, toil, trade union movement, tug, undertaking, working class
EFFORT
- Synonyms: attempt, campaign, cause, crusade, elbow grease, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, exploit, feat, movement, sweat, try
ARDUOUS
- Synonyms: backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, straining, strenuous, toilsome
SWEAT
- Synonyms: effort, fret, lather, perspiration, perspire, stew, sudate, sudor, swither
MOIL
- Synonyms: boil, churn, roil