Crossword-Solution: SLICKEST
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Hardest to catch | 3 answers |
| Most clever | 8 answers |
| Most cunning | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SLICKEST (5)
Sam said to me, 'That little lady of yours is the slickest thing that ever came to this town,' he said; and Ma Dawson--I didn't hardly know whether she'd like you or not, she's such a dried-up old bird, but she said, 'Your bride is so quick and bright, I declare, she just wakes me up.'” Carol liked praise, the flavor and fatness of it, but she was so energetically being sorry for herself that she could not taste this commendation.
His wife watched him with an amused smile, but the only remark he made was, “Well, Mary, that’s about the slickest ‘glass hack’ in town, isn’t it?” LEAVE HIM KICKING.
PERKINS: Oh, can't you understand, the Eel is the nickname, the alias of one of the slickest crooks in the country, Billy Bradley.
You're either the goshdarndest fool livin' or else you're the slickest confidence man outside of captivity.
The slickest horse-thief that ever operated in the West was a revivalist who migrated there with a tent.
Quotes with SLICKEST (3)
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one an art. The trick is to keep a secret. Or many secrets, even. In Lee Child’s books, Jack Reacher always has a big mystery to crack, but there are a series of smaller mysteries in the meantime, too, a new one appearing as soon as the last is resolved. J. K. Rowling is another master of this technique — Who gave Harry that Firebolt? How is Rita Skeeter getting her info? The art…
Probe deeply enough, under the slickest façade of confidence, and you tapped a vein of self-doubt or a hidden fear. Irrational fears and baseless doubts, many of them, but that was precisely why constant reassurance was necessary to the human animal.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2003–2021).