Sly - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 19/04/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Sly.

4 letter answer(s) to sly

ARCH
  1. (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
  2. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
  3. a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)
  4. a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
  5. a passageway under a curved masonry construction; "they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory"
  6. expert in skulduggery; "an arch criminal"
  7. form an arch or curve; "her back arches"; "her hips curve nicely"
  8. naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank"
CAGY
  1. characterized by great caution and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor"
  2. showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"

6 letter answer(s) to sly

ARTFUL
  1. marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"
  2. not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"
CRAFTY
  1. evasive
  2. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
  3. SLY, CUNNING
SNEAKY
  1. marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods"
  2. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"

5 letter answer(s) to sly

LEERY
  1. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Sly'

... supporter of cathedral gets him a promotion
Annoyingly playful
Apprehensive
Artful
Backdoor
Being mischievous, skipping first half of study
Bend
Bend over with cramp partly returning
Bony structure of the foot
Bow
Bridge or foot feature
Bridge part
Bridge piece
Bridge shape
Bridger
Calculating
Cautious
Cautious sort of line taken about old royal insignia
Char
Chief
Chief section of the foot
Chief's sly hunch
Chief, playfully mischievous
Chief: Prefix
Circumspect
Clever
Coy
Coyly roguish
Crafty
Crafty revolutionary paper cuts a limited order
Crafty Rex admitted to fault – that's unusual
Cunning
Cunning criminal merely wants money
Cunning leader vanishing in demo
Cunningly clever
Cunningly evil
Curve
Curve of a conifer with its top cut off
Curved doorway
Curved masonry construction
Curved overhead structure
Curved structure
Curved structure builder ultimately installed in a church
Deceitful
Demonstration after head's ousted principal
Demonstration spurning first entrance to city?
Design feature of many a
Design feature over many
Devious, just like Serpent, to keep one working away
Dexterous
Dict. label
Distrustful
Double-dealing
Dubious
Enemy leader?
Entrance to many a plaza
Eyebrow shape
Flatfoot's lack
Foot curve
Foxy 10 is topless
Furtive
Furtive, sly
Gateway near Chichester partly demolished
Geological feature on a U
Guarded
Half of a McDonald's logo
Hardly accepting
Hesitant
Indian dish eaten by one tailless duck, perhaps?
Ingenious
It has a keystone
It may have fallen on a f
Keystone place
Keystone site
Keystone's place
Knowing capitals of all regions and countries here
Knowing some nuclear chemistry
Knowing sort of look — mystery's ending
Leading parade, miles away
Leading Roman Catholic staying in a hotel
Like a literary Dodger
Like Dickens's Dodger
Main
Main Oscar choices whittled down
Masonry construction for spanning an opening
Masterly and concise description of gallery?
Military parade passagewa
Mischievous
Mischievous - curve
Month not the first that may be triumphal
Mosque entranceway
Not so sure
Ogee, e.g.
On one's guard
Once bitten, say
Part of a gateway
Part of footmark effaced in procession
Part of McDonald's logo
Part of the foot
Patronising - impish
Place for a keystone
Playful bow
Playful piece of music lacking intro
Playfully roguish
Playfully teasing principal
Pollarded tree forms curved structure
Possible opening for chief in combinations?
Principal
Principal gateway perhaps
Principal ingredient of regular charcoal
Principal piece of music that needs no introduction
Procession heading off for monument
Puckish entrance leading to bow
Records omitting Brunel's section of bridge, perhaps
Roguish
Roman aqueduct support
Saucy curve
Shoe part
Showing deviousness
Shrewd
Shrewd, getting a great deal in Cyprus
Skeptical
Slippery Harry Kane wears sporty clothing
Slippery slope's end is submerged by Serpentine
Sly has stiffener - way to go
Sly to reach out pointlessly
Smelling a rat
Spanning structure
Spot for a parade
St. Louis attraction
St. Louis landmark
St. Louis sight
St. Louis's Gateway ___
Stone excluded from formal attitude in part of bridge
Support for bridge expert
Suspicious
Suspicious criminal activity near White House ends in trouble
Suspicious martial artist ready on vacation
Taking first of month off is cunning
Tricky
Underhand
Underhanded
Vault
Vault artist raised over church
Vault seen in centre of Bavarian church
Vault tree, avoiding lake
Walk without using front part of foot
Wary
Wary of fish counter with rusty edges
Wary when left with spooky sound
Wily
Wind-up? Why to be wary
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