Tough Nut Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 11, 2023

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	noun • fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
	38%	3		Tough ___
	noun • Egyptian goddess of the sky • usually large hard-shelled seed • a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt • half the width of an em • a whimsically eccentric person • someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction • one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens verb • gather nuts
	33%	6		Tough nut used for playing
	noun • the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut

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New York Times02 Oct 1996	Across 20
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