Answer: STERN
STERN is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 222 times.
Referring Clues:
- Back of a boat
 - Rudder's locale
 - Grave
 - Unaccommodating
 - Uncompromising
 - Stringent
 - Unsmiling
 - Rear
 - Back
 - Finger-wagging
 - Back on the briny
 - Rudder's place
 - Rudder's spot
 - Unbending
 - Demanding
 - Rowboat's rear
 - Boat's back
 - Shock jock Howard
 - Like some warnings
 - Violinist Isaac
 - Howard of morning radio
 - Bark back
 - Back on the high seas
 - Draconian
 - Opposite of soft
 - Not lenient
 - Finger-wagging, say
 - Schindler's business partner in "Schindler's List"
 - Like disciplinarians
 - Place for an outboard motor
 - Brooking no dissent
 - Forbidding
 - Rear, in the Navy
 - Back at sea?
 - Far from soft
 - Hard-nosed
 - Firm
 - Rear of a galley
 - Imus rival
 - "Private Parts" author Howard
 - Back of the boat
 - Relentless
 - Back on the sea
 - Sailor's rear
 - Rudder locale
 - Self-proclaimed "King of All Media"
 - Back in the navy
 - Stem's opposite
 - Severe in manner
 - Back end
 - Laying down the law
 - Austere
 - See 15-Across
 - Far from lenient
 - FCC flouter Howard
 - Howard of Sirius radio
 - Ferry tail
 - Ruling with an iron fist
 - Back on the ocean
 - Back at sea
 - Stem to ___
 - Noted shock jock
 - Harsh
 - "Private Parts" author
 - Flinty
 - Sirius star
 - NYU's business school
 - NBA commissioner David
 - Back on the ocean?
 - Rigid
 - Tough
 - Boat back
 - Severe
 - Tiller's place
 - After part
 - Back of a ship
 - Very strict
 - Brooking no nonsense
 - Back in the Navy?
 - Back of a skiff
 - Back, at sea
 - Hardly lenient
 - Unyielding
 - Outboard motor's locale
 - Hardly permissive
 - Iron-fisted
 - Boat section
 - Bow's opposite
 - Place for a wake?
 - Outboard motor location
 - Like old schoolmasters, stereotypically
 - Hardhearted
 - Opposite of stem
 - Hind end
 - Ship's rear
 - 26-Down opposite
 - Howard of satellite radio
 - Violin virtuoso Isaac
 - Hard
 - Rear of a ship
 - From stem to ___
 - Harsh, as a reprimand
 - Isaac with a bow
 - Whaler's rear end
 - Back, on a skipjack
 - Outboard motor locale
 - Virtuoso Isaac
 - Poop's place
 - Radio's bad boy
 - Back of a skipjack
 - Shock jock
 - Tiller's locale
 - Grim
 - Back on the high seas?
 - Rents anagram
 - Not easily amused
 - Unlikely to crack a smile
 - Prow opposite
 - Prow opposite
 - Exacting
 - Somber
 - Barge back
 - 'King of All Media'
 - Radio's Howard
 - Unrelenting
 - Boat back
 - Like a tough-love parent
 - Not at all lenient
 - Authoritarian
 - Quarterdeck's place
 - Uncompromising virtuoso
 - Bow's counterpart
 - Strict
 - Fiddling Isaac
 - Daniel of "City Slickers"
 - Like taskmasters, often
 - Serious
 - Rear admiral's rear
 - Back in the water
 - Exacting, discipline-wise
 - Not at all lax
 - Gondolier's position
 - Rudder's location
 - Scene of a wake
 - Rudder location
 - Heavy handed
 - Inflexible
 - 'America's Got Talent' judge
 - Isaac with a violin
 - Satellite-radio star
 - Wes of "Rhoda"
 - Resistant to compromise
 - Ironfisted
 - Howard ___ of radio
 - Back in the water?
 - Like a parental lecture
 - "City Slickers" co-star
 - Violinist Isaac ___
 - All business
 - Cruiser's rear
 - Hard to move
 - Harsh in apperance
 - Area to the rear
 - Like a disciplinarian's talk
 - Rear, to an admiral
 - Without empathy
 - Far from lax
 - U.S. violinist
 - Howard or Isaac
 - SiriusXM star
 - Grim-looking
 - Barge's back
 - Titanic rear end
 - Taking no guff
 - Unlikely to smile
 - Part of a ship
 - See 60-Across
 - Where a ship leaves its wake
 - Serious and firm
 - Sirius XM radio star
 - Harsh or rigid
 - Adamantine
 - Ocean liner's rear
 - Aft area
 - Howard on satellite radio
 - Self-described "King of All Media"
 - Like a taskmaster
 - Outboard motor's spot
 - Skipjack's back
 - Lenient? No way
 - Area for a taffrail
 - Harsh, as an instructor
 - Like a disciplinarian
 - Endmost part of an aircraft
 - "wonder years" narrator daniel
 - "the howard ___ show"
 - 4-Across' opposite
 - Rudder's region
 - Rear of a boat
 - Ship's rear end
 - Rigorous
 - Highly exacting
 - Rudder area
 - Rear part of a ship
 - Doling out tough love
 - Serious and strict
 - Prow : front :: ___ : back
 - Rigidly rule-enforcing
 - Rear with rudders
 - See 49-Across
 - Like the tone of a talking-to
 - Ship area
 - Violinist Isaac who performed the solos in the movie "Fiddler on the Roof"
 - Serious in tone
 - Severe in tone
 - Like a serious talking-to
 - Rhadamanthine
 - Serious in demeanor
 - No-nonsense
 - Strict and serious
 - Unlikely to approve of horseplay
 - Showing tough love, say
 
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