Hard to compete against Crossword Clue

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Hard to compete against Crossword Answer

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HARD (adjective)
1. (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
2. unfortunate or hard to bear
HARD (adverb)
1. with firmness
2. slowly and with difficulty
AGAINST (preposition)
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; in this sense often preceded by over.

More Missing Letter Crossword (3/9/2025) Answers

Across

1. NOUN: "a Japanese system of writing that utilizes characters borrowed or adapted from Chinese writing"

6. "Just tell me what's on your mind!"

11. End-of-proof letters

14. Rub ___ (soothe, perhaps)

15. NOUN: "a light-colored usually mild cigar"

16. Suffix with mod or glob

17. NOUN PHRASE: "[retracting a vow] especially to marry"

20. Richly deserve

21. Tie scores lead to them (abbr.)

22. ADJECTIVE: "designed to restrict entrance usually by means of physical barriers, a private security force, and a controlled [point of admittance]"

23. NOUN: "the Supreme Being of Rastafarianism"

25. Chocolate-coated toffee bar

27. NOUN PHRASE: "a legal instrument authorizing one to act as the...agent of the grantor"

35. VERB: "to link by a legal or moral bond"

36. Did it wrong

37. NOUN: "a lyric poem usually marked by exaltation of feeling and style, varying length of line, and complexity of stanza forms"

38. NOUN SUFFIX: "state or condition resulting from a (specified) action"

39. Oven setting

40. Move quickly from place to place

41. "High Potential" network

42. Chaotic state

43. Garbo or Van Susteren

44. NOUN PHRASE: "a way [in which some people consider an issue]"

47. Person mentioned in a will

48. One of a dozen

49. Vein filler

52. Unusual, as the spelling of a word (abbr.)

54. NOUN: "a usually four-wheeled...vehicle designed for passenger transportation"

58. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "headland on the southern coast of Spain...highest point 1396 feet (426 meters)"

62. German exclamation

63. Funnyman Brady

64. "What ___ About You" (2000s sitcom)

65. NOUN: "a facility with usually indoor and outdoor settings where living, typically wild animals are kept especially for public exhibition"

66. NOUN: "a combination of nine instruments or voices"

67. NOUN: "a complex tissue in the vascular system of higher plants"

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1. Lakers legend Bryant

2. ___ grievance (get something off your chest)

3. Met, Nat, or Card, e.g.

4. "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" singer

5. ABBREVIATION: "formed into a legal corporation"

6. Get off ___-free (escape punishment)

7. Landon and Clausen, for two

8. VERB: "to talk in a shrill insistent way"

9. Like some vbs.

11. VERB: "to desist from"

12. ADVERB: "in an additional manner or place or at an additional time"

13. NOUN: "something that is done"

18. Foil-wrapped treat

19. The Smiths guitarist Johnny

24. “Where ___ you?”

25. Likely to enforce the rules

26. "Hooked on Classics" company

27. Mountain lions

28. 2,026 years ago

29. NOUN: "any of various machines or instruments for hauling or pulling"

30. NOUN: "intensity of feeling or expression"

31. Have ___ over one's head (get by)

32. Have ___ to stand on (use a weak argument)

33. "All in the Family" role

34. "___ the same time..." ("On the other hand...")

39. Island with many yoga retreats

40. How a spendthrift spends

42. NOUN: "a dance for four couples who form the sides of a square"

43. Prince mentioned in Ezekiel

45. "Now I see your point"

46. German address

49. Sao Paulo's nat.

50. Crazy, in Costa Rica

51. Eight in Ecuador

52. NOUN: "a plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining or creeps along the ground"

53. Help out on a heist, say

55. Electricity or water (Abbr.)

56. VERB: "to seize or capture physically"

57. Utah city

59. ___ Schwarz (toy company)

60. OB-___

61. ___-en-Provence (French city)

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