Crossword-Solution: CANNY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Canny | a. | Alt. of Cannei |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| CANNY | anagram | NANCY |
We have 72 clues for the answer “CANNY”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| 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.
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.
She made up her mind, with a canny knowingness, that there should be no presents this time, no theater invitations, no lunches or dinners.
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.
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.
Quotes with CANNY (3)
She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.
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.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 49 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).