When “Work hard” is part of a crossword, these answers have historically matched that clue in various published puzzles, making them practical to test in your own solving process.
Answer List:
- TOIL
- GRAFT
- SLOG
- LABOUR
- GRIND
- PLY
- KNUCKLEDOWN
- DIGIN
- LABOR
- SLAVE
- DRUDGE
- HUSTLE
- STRIVE
- MOIL
Synonyms and Definitions
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
LABOUR
- Synonyms: childbed, confinement, drive, lying-in, parturiency, proletariat, push, toil, tug, working class
GRIND
- Synonyms: bray, comminute, cranch, craunch, crunch, donkeywork, drudgery, dweeb, grate, mash, mill, nerd, plodding, pulverisation, pulverization, swot, wonk
PLY
- Synonyms: cater, provide, run, supply
LABOR
- Synonyms: department of labor, dol, labor movement, project, task, trade union movement, undertaking
SLAVE
- Synonyms: break ones back, buckle down, hard worker, knuckle down, striver
DRUDGE
- Synonyms: galley slave, hack, hacker, navvy, peon
HUSTLE
- Synonyms: ado, bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, bustle, bustle about, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, flurry, fuss, gyp, pluck, roll, sting, stir
STRIVE
- Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour, reach, strain
MOIL
- Synonyms: boil, churn, roil