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[BilSuth]

16a difficult, severe (5) H-A-Y I can't see past heavy, but it's a pathetic clue for
a commonplace word which has 27 listings in the thesaurus which do include
"difficult" but not "severe".

[JMR27]

I've gone with heavy. The Chambers thesaurus lists both 'difficult' and 'severe' under 'heavy'.

[BilSuth]

Yes, JMR27, I googled it with synonyms+difficult+severe. Still say it's a poor clue.