Cruel person Crossword Clue

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Here is the answer for the crossword clue Cruel person featured in Newsday puzzle on December 23, 2025. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 5 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is BRUTE.

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5 Potential Answers:

AnswerLengthSourceDate
BRUTE Cruel person (5) Newsday Dec 23, 2025
OGRE Cruel person (4) Wall Street Journal Mar 5, 2025
SADIST Cruel person (6) The Telegraph Quick Jun 17, 2024
MEANIE Cruel person (6) Newsday Nov 28, 2023
BEAST Cruel person (5) Newsday Dec 15, 2020

35 Similar Clues:

RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
39% SADISTS Cruel persons (7)
34% BULLY Overbearing cruel person (5)
30% FIEND Wicked or cruel person (5) (5)
30% NASTYPIECEOFWORK Mean, cruel person (5,5,2,4) (16)
30% MONSTER Inhumanly cruel person (7) (7)
30% MONSTER M Cruel person on to supplant a supervisor (9)
27% BRUT Cruel person for the most part is not sweet (4) The Times Quick Cryptic Jan 7, 2025
27% OTTER Cruel person beheaded river creature (5)
27% ORE Cruel person wasting good money (3) The Telegraph Toughie Sep 13, 2016
24% ERGON Cruel person reverting back to Mephistophelean work (5) The Times Mephisto Aug 24, 2025

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