| TOIL | To the Italian this is hard work (4) |
| HABI | Breaking this is hard, to some extent |
| ONYX | Two axes and no going back? This is hard (4) |
| NAIL | Returns an article to the Italian that comes to a head in the building industry (4) |
| SAIL | Get going at sea, like going back to the Italian version (4) |
| VIOL | Said goodbye to the Italian food (4) |
| SLOG | Introduction to scientist's diary is hard work (4) |
| TOLL | It is hard work to pile inside |
| PIANO | In Italian this word is an adverb or adjective; it comes from a Late Latin word meaning "smooth." First known use in English dates to 1683. In English the word refers to a musical instrument with stri |
| BARNACLE | When there's a counter to get clean, perhaps, this is hard to shift (8) |
| ENIGMA | Hemingway ignores why this is hard to fathom (6) |
| OOF | "This is hard to watch" |
| RADISH | This is hard and mixed into a salad (6) |
| MALARIA | In Italian, this word (actually, two words) means "bad air." In English, it refers a human disease caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium transmitted by mosquitos. Its first known use was in 1740 |
| PRIMITIVE | Demure Italian this writer's seen as simple |
| TESTAROSSA | Translated from Italian, this Ferrari model means 'redhead' (10) |
| CORUNDUM | They reckon this is hard stuff?? Blimey! A French bullet cut it in half! (8) |
| INFLUENCE | From "to flow", a noun for the power of ascendancy that is related to the Italian word for the grippe (9) |
| MIDDLEAGES | In European history, the period from the end of classical antiquity to the Italian Renaissance (6,4) |
| ROCKOIL | Petroleum got from stone is nothing to the Italian (4,3) |
