Trying hard to shock Crossword Clue

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(adjective)
1. being in a tense state

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

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
SHOCK (noun)
1. the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
2. a sudden jarring impact
SHOCK (verb)
1. surprise greatly; knock someone’s socks off
2. inflict a trauma upon

More New Yorker Crossword (6/9/2026) Answers

Across

1. Cherubic-looking

11. No longer in the womb

15. [I’m a little baby!]

16. High-quality cooking fat, for short

17. Reason to eschew cashews

18. Tripod's trio

19. Name that's a synonym of "eat" backward

20. “Some assembly required” purchases

21. Work the catwalk

22. The first officially recorded one was 055-09-0001: Abbr.

23. Brand of Canadian gas stations

24. Ball carrier on a football field

25. Rhetorical term that comes from the Greek for both “sharp” and “dull”

27. Biblical name meaning “my God”

28. Savory jelly

30. Rapper Lil ___ X

31. Cry like a banshee

32. Advice to someone experiencing an anxiety attack

34. Stymies, as a plan

36. Polish Nobel Prize winner Wałęsa

37. L’___ du Peuple (magazine from the French Revolution)

39. Scold

40. Edebiri of “After the Hunt”

41. Competition show on which Bobby Flay controversially stood atop his cutting board

43. Handout at a sexual-health clinic

45. ___ down (tuck into a meal)

46. Common recyclable

49. Props for a job well done

50. Surface for a frog to cross in “Frogger”

51. "Get lost!"

52. Title for the leader of Bahrain until he changed it to “king,” in 2002

53. Run-time error?

55. Pull on sharply

56. Stalinist’s ideological foe, in Soviet Russia

58. Humans who can transform into fierce scavengers, in African mythology

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Down

1. Governess Grey in an Anne Brontë novel

2. Bed-and-breakfast, for example

3. Was waved through by the bouncer

4. Blast from the past

5. Response to a funny D.M.

6. Down-to-earth appeal

7. Type of discrimination whose name was coined by the gerontologist Robert Neil Butler

8. Many a YouTube Kids video

9. Dairy-aisle purchase with no dairy

10. Planetary-rotation period

11. Shows off one’s pipes

12. Listened in on, perhaps

13. Video-game subgenre that includes Hades and Balatro

14. Widely spaced features of a hammerhead shark

21. Source of some flares

23. Sign above a door

24. Beginning-of-the-month observance, in Judaism

25. Round, brightly colored fish

26. Pest-control target with a long tail

28. Question to someone giving the silent treatment

29. Backing up at a meeting

31. Dickensian child

32. Souvenir from a boxing match

33. Genre in which Rites of Spring was a pioneering band

35. That was exhausting!

38. Like most TV shows, by the seventies

41. Platform with AssistiveTouch

42. Sexless

44. Dweebish

46. Store with multiple locations

47. It connects to the left ventricle

48. “Too many ___” (Joseph II’s criticism of a Mozart opera, in “Amadeus”)

50. Not at all ordinary

51. Annoyance treated by an optometrist

53. Celebratory initialism, online

54. Overhead expanse

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