Clues for the word "DEFT"
We've had 53 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 306 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on April 17, 2025.
Definition of deft
- a. - Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat.
Referring Clues
- Nimble
- Clever
- Skillful
- Skilled
- Dexterous
- Magicianlike
- Adroit
- Adept
- Like a pickpocket's fingers
- Nimble-fingered
- Artful
- Quick
- Handy
- Skillful in movement
- Slick
- Like a handyman
- Highly skilled
- Nimble-fingered, e.g.
- Manually skilled
- Quick and skillful
- Like jugglers
- Like a jack-of-all-trades
- Agile
- Skillfully executed
- Far from clumsy
- Adroit
- Good at coin magic, say
- Good with one's hands
- Hardly all thumbs
- Like a magician's hands
- Quick and skillful in movement
- Light-fingered
- It's handy when your foot's half dead!
- Dextrous
- Expert providing successive notes on time
- Cleverly skillful
- Masterly
- Skilful and quick
- It's best to get rid of each expert
- Skilful
- Adroit, skilful
- Skilled/unskilled?
- Displaying dexterity
- Cleverly artful
- Skillfull
- Fed back to the beginning in dextrous style
- Handy having editor back on newspaper
- Sure-of-hand
- Expert
- Handled well
- Like a virtuoso
- Displaying remarkable skill
- Artfully nimble
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - April 17, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 18, 2025
- New York Times - February 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 17, 2025
- LA Times - December 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 10, 2024
- Daily American - September 10, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 26, 2024
- New York Times - August 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 12, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 10, 2024
- LA Times - July 22, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 18, 2024
- LA Times - July 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 08, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 05, 2024
- USA Today - April 22, 2024
- Daily American - April 20, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 22, 2024
- Daily American - December 05, 2023
- New York Times - November 29, 2023
- Your Life Choices - November 18, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 30, 2023
- And in 276 more crossword puzzles...