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Tough Nuts To Crack Crossword Clue

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noun

• a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not

• a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor

• a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem

49%7 Extra tough nuts to crack
noun

• Something that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense.

29%10 Uses rocks to crack nuts
noun

• intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests

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New York Times08 Sep 1983 Across 42
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