Work hard for Crossword Clue

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STRIVE

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Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
2. acquire or deserve by one’s efforts or actions

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

WORK (verb)
1. make uniform
2. perform as expected when applied
WORK (noun)
1. applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
2. the occupation for which you are paid
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

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

STRIVE
(6 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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NEAR

More Apple+ Crossword (8/19/2026) Answers

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14. Insult

16. Old-school phrase of understanding

17. Expensive meat

19. Piles

20. Some computer drives

21. Like a house listed on the market with no repairs having been made

23. Locks onto a target

25. Rejections

26. Bird that’s neither hunted nor always female, despite its name

33. Unit of time on Mars, from the Latin for “sun”

34. Like s’mores and lava cakes

35. Bring home from a shelter

36. Shoe specification

38. Me, in French

40. Capitol Reef National Park’s state

41. Exaggerate

45. Musician Frank with the live-from-Australia album FZ:OZ

47. Patty on a breakfast sandwich

49. Mostly used-up crayon

52. ___Pen (first-aid device)

53. Free of additives

54. Feeling nervous

56. Behind-the-scenes workers for podcasts

59. Twangy

60. One who might have a building named after them

62. “Cup and char” topping

64. Moonlight actor Holland

65. Burden

66. Like the subjects of many Suzanne Valadon paintings

67. Classroom furniture

68. Mani-___

69. Cool!

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1. Call of a crow

2. Feast featuring kalua pig

3. Assns.

4. Drinking spot for bears

5. Wane

6. 🤷

7. Cookie with a hotteok-flavored BTS collab in 2026

8. Mandarin greeting that translates to “How are you?”

9. "That's my bad"

10. Popular takeout cuisine

11. Features of some jeans

12. Photo ___ (publicity events)

15. League with Bengals and Jaguars

18. Employing

22. Double-helix molecule

24. Dios ___!

26. Many a laundromat machine, for short

27. They go way back

28. Skirt's edge

29. Fried appetizer at an izakaya

30. Soup variety made with egg and bamboo shoots

31. Agency that sets air-quality standards

32. Unspecified position in a mathematical sequence

33. Steal, or pay with a card

37. Animal also known as a wapiti

39. Villain in Othello or Aladdin

42. Has an ambition

43. Stretched tight

44. ABBA genre

46. Ziti alternative

48. Peaceful

50. Country bordered by Tanzania to the south and Kenya to the east

51. Gave a false impression of

57. A___able (cutely awkward)

58. Tater

60. Many a nose wiper and bedtime storyteller

61. Number that shares a computer key with the exclamation mark

63. Penultimate Greek letter

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