Crossword-Solution: CANNY 5 letters, 72 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Canny a. Alt. of Cannei

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CANNY anagram NANCY

We have 72 clues for the answer “CANNY”

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Smart with money 1 answer
Thrifty or crafty 1 answer
Street-smart, e.g. 1 answer
Shrewd in worldly affairs. 1 answer
SCOTTISH lucky 1 answer
Not gullible 1 answer
Astute or shrewd 1 answer
Not at all gullible 1 answer
Knowing how to stretch a sixpence. 1 answer
Awfully clever 1 answer
Pawky 3 answers
Foresighted 3 answers
Street-smart 4 answers
Worldly-wise 4 answers
Sharp-witted 8 answers
BE CAREFUL, PRUDENT, OR WATCHFUL 10 answers
sneaking 43 answers
Conniving 44 answers
Duplicitous 45 answers
Sneaky 45 answers
Cute 47 answers
Stealthy? 48 answers
Imaginative 51 answers
Guileful 51 answers
Dexterous 52 answers
thrifty 52 answers
Surreptitious 53 answers
Insidious 55 answers
Adroit 56 answers
shady 57 answers
Arch 57 answers
Wily 58 answers
Underhand? 58 answers
inventive 59 answers
frugal 60 answers
Slick 60 answers
Sly 61 answers
Faithless 61 answers
Ingenious 61 answers
Prudent 61 answers
Cagey 63 answers
Economical 64 answers
Foxy 65 answers
Crafty 65 answers
designing 67 answers
untrustworthy 68 answers
chary 68 answers
Astute 69 answers
Wary 69 answers
skilful 69 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CANNY (5)

You see, I am following Sandy's canny advice: "Trustees are like fiddle-strings; they maunna be screwed ower tight.
Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1995
Now, our engine's built in Glasgow by a very canny Scot, And he marked it twenty horse-power, but he don't know what is what: When Canadian Bill is firing with the sun-dried gidgee logs, She can equal thirty horses and a score or so of dogs.
Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 1995
She made up her mind, with a canny knowingness, that there should be no presents this time, no theater invitations, no lunches or dinners.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 2008
Canny? Not necessarily, or why should she have been hungry and out of a job in January? Jennie stood in the row before the window, and stared.
Buttered Side Down Edna Ferber 2008
And for His name’s sake keep yersel’ frae inordinate desires; haud your heart in baith your hands, carry it canny and laigh; dinna send it up like a hairn’s kite into the collieshangic o’ the wunds! Mind, Maister Erchie dear, that this life’s a’ disappointment, and a mouthfu’ o’ mools is the appointed end.” “Ay, but Kirstie, my woman, you’re asking me ower much at last,” said Archie, profoundly moved, and lapsing into the broad Scots.
Weir of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Quotes with CANNY (3)

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.
Alex Shakar Luminarium
I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.
Loren Eiseley The Immense Journey
There used to be a canny politician in the Hyde Park area in Chicago in which I at one time lived for several years. His slogan was "I am for harmony if I have to use an axe." As "Secretary of Charm," if and when my merits and ambitions are recognized by my appointment to that office, I will take a page out of old "Doc" Jamieson's book. My motto will be "I will have charm, even if I have to use a club.
Beatrice Fairfax Ladies now and then
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 49 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).