Crossword-Solution: HARDBOILED
We have 16 clues for the answer “HARDBOILED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A1: "Right. They're a couple of ___ types." | 1 answer |
| Like Spade or Marlowe (10) | 1 answer |
| Like eggs or bosses, maybe | 1 answer |
| Like many James Cagney characters | 1 answer |
| Like some eggs and detectives | 1 answer |
| Tough as nails (Mark Twain) | 1 answer |
| Tough as they come | 1 answer |
| Tough: Colloq. | 1 answer |
| cooked until the yolk is solid | 1 answer |
| Tough and unsentimental | 2 answers |
| Tough-as-nails | 2 answers |
| Like Easter eggs | 3 answers |
| Tough as nails | 3 answers |
| Down-to-earth | 12 answers |
| Realistic | 61 answers |
| Tough | 108 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CMEZAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HARDBOILED (5)
Claude opened the icebox, where his supper was arranged for him; a dish of canned salmon with a white sauce; hardboiled eggs, peeled and lying in a nest of lettuce leaves; a bowl of ripe tomatoes, a bit of cold rice pudding; cream and butter.
But a few days afterward they could have kicked themselves for letting Smith off so easy, for the press was full of the stories of the brutalities of “Hardboiled” Smith.
Wright and Sergeant Gray are not yearning to do many events of the Russian campaign over but they would like to have that little event of the homeward bound voyage to do over so they could give complete justice to “Hardboiled” Smith.
The chief offered her a fabulous sum--'much beer in little kegs, many dozen hardboiled eggs, and goodies to a fabulous amount'--fabulous for W R, that is--to act as special writer on the grass business.
Page 16, "evenning" changed to "evening" (by way of evening things) Page 109, "egg yolks" changed to "egg-yolks" (up four egg-yolks) Page 126, "hardboiled" changed to "hard-boiled" (sliced hard-boiled eggs) Page 142, "egg yolks" changed to "egg-yolks" (other, seven egg-yolks) Page 154, repeated word "called" removed from text.
Quotes with HARDBOILED (3)
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes... I can't do it, so why bother trying?
Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1957–2020).