Crossword-Solution: HARDBOILED 10 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

We have 16 clues for the answer “HARDBOILED”

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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
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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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.
One of Ours Willa Cather 2004
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.
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Joel R. Moore and Harry H. Mead and Lewis E. Jahns 2007
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 History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Joel R. Moore and Harry H. Mead and Lewis E. Jahns 2007
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.
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 2008
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.
Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch Williams 2009

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.
Charles Frazier
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?
Jesse Kellerman
Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
Adrian McKinty
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 13 times in crossword archives (1957–2020).