Doing things without assistance feels hard, terrible not having a friend backing (4-4) Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Doing things without assistance feels hard, terrible not having a friend backing (4-4) . 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 8 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is SELFHELP.

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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% SELFHELP Doing things without assistance feels hard, terrible not having a friend backing (4-4) (8)
7% ALONE Without assistance (5) Newsday Dec 2, 2025
7% ITSASIN "What a terrible thing to do" (7) LA Times Daily Nov 26, 2025
7% AIDEDECAMP Assistant's terrible idea to do a runner (10) The Times Cryptic Sep 13, 2025
6% IDLED Didn't do a thing (5) Universal Dec 19, 2025
6% LENT Time to do without (4) New York Times Dec 17, 2025
6% ERR Do the wrong thing (3) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic Dec 13, 2025
6% SINGLEHANDED Without assistance (6-6) (12) Mirror Classic Dec 9, 2025
6% ENAMEL Terribly mean to the Spanish - that's hard (6) (6) Mirror Cryptic Dec 9, 2025
6% AVIATE Do the Wright thing? (6) New York Times Nov 23, 2025
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