Answer: CRUEL
CRUEL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 56 times.
Referring Clues:
- Diabolical
 - Unusual partner?
 - Barbaric
 - Nasty and then some
 - Truculent
 - Hard-hearted
 - Merciless
 - Vicious
 - Unkind
 - Eighth Amendment word
 - Cold-blooded
 - Harsh
 - Mean
 - Inhumane
 - "___ Shoes" (Steve Martin book)
 - Draconian
 - Like Cinderella's stepmother
 - Sadistic
 - More than mean
 - Brutal
 - Nasty
 - Unusual companion?
 - Unusual partner
 - Barbarous
 - Ruthless
 - Like Caligula
 - Inhumane
 - Despotic
 - Mean, and then some
 - Like Cinderella's stepsisters
 - Steve Martin's "___ Shoes"
 - Very unkind
 - Not very nice
 - Very mean
 - A bit worse than 44-Across
 - Ironhearted
 - Monstrous
 - Savage
 - Not at all kind-hearted
 - Beastly
 - Pitiless
 - Like a Grand Inquisitor
 - Twisting the knife, say
 - Mean, mean, mean
 - Meaner than mean
 - Like Vlad the Impaler
 - Quite heartless
 - Heartless
 - Unrelenting
 - Deliberately hurtful
 - Capable of atrocities
 - Like April, per Eliot
 - Not nice at all
 - More than unkind
 - Unacceptable, as punishment
 - Bananarama's ___ summer
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - April 17, 2025
 - LA Times - January 21, 2025
 - USA Today - June 06, 2024
 - LA Times - September 12, 2023
 - LA Times - February 20, 2022
 - LA Times - February 09, 2022
 - LA Times - October 10, 2021
 - New York Times - February 03, 2021
 - Netword - December 29, 2020
 - LA Times - September 15, 2020
 - New York Times - July 23, 2020
 - USA Today - June 17, 2020
 - LA Times - April 29, 2020
 - Netword - April 28, 2020
 - LA Times - March 11, 2020
 - Universal - May 17, 2019
 - Universal - May 15, 2019
 - Universal - March 31, 2019
 - New York Times - February 06, 2019
 - USA Today - July 30, 2018
 
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