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The Clue
Yielding little for much toil (12 letter answer)
The Answer
HARDSCRABBLE
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Notes
The answer HARDSCRABBLE is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
HARDSCRABBLE as an adjective:
1. yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil"
2. (hardscrabble, marginal) = of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"