Crossword-Solution: DEFT 4 letters, 116 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Deft	a.	Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat.

We have 116 clues for the answer “DEFT”

Clue	Answers
Artfully nimble	1 answer
CLEVER in movement	1 answer
Cleverly artful	1 answer
Displaying remarkable skill	1 answer
Good at coin magic, say	1 answer
Hardly all thumbs	1 answer
Having finesse	1 answer
Highly skillful	1 answer
Like Houdini	1 answer
Like a croupier's hands	1 answer
Like a handyman	1 answer
Like a magician's hands	1 answer
Like a pickpocket's fingers	1 answer
Like a prestidigitator	1 answer
Like a virtuoso	1 answer
Like chainsaw jugglers	1 answer
Like close-up magicians	1 answer
Like good street magicians	1 answer
Like jugglers	1 answer
Magicianlike	1 answer
Neatly skilful	1 answer
Nimble-fingered, e.g.	1 answer
Quick and neatly skilful	1 answer
Quick and skillful	1 answer
Skillful in movement	1 answer
Skillfully able	1 answer
Skillfully done	1 answer
Skillfully executed	1 answer
Socially nimble	1 answer
Sure-fingered	1 answer
Sure-of-hand	1 answer
Workmanlike.	1 answer
quick and skilful in movement	1 answer
Far from clumsy	2 answers
Like a dab hand	2 answers
Cleverly skillful	2 answers
Displaying dexterity	2 answers
Good with one's hands	2 answers
Neatly skilled	2 answers
Nimble-digited	2 answers
Handled well	2 answers
Light-fingered	2 answers
Like a jack-of-all-trades	2 answers
Manually skilled	2 answers
Nimble-fingered	3 answers
Sure-handed	5 answers
Highly skilled	8 answers
Sharp as a tack	9 answers
A CRAFT THAT REQUIRES SKILLFUL HANDS	10 answers
A SKILLED MECHANIC IN THE ARMY	10 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AETER

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with DEFT (5)

His hand was under the coat for but a moment, yet those quick, deft fingers had felt of each coin, and found and discarded the fatal piece.

The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

With deft fingers, long accustomed to the silent manipulation of the bars and bolts that guarded other men’s property, Condon turned the key and the knob simultaneously.

The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Professor Maxon stood silently by, watching the loving tenderness that marked each deft, little movement of her strong, brown hands.

The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994

Now she rested her elbow on the cushion of the glove counter, and a pretty, pleasant young creature, delicate and deft of touch, drew a long-wristed “kid” over Mrs.

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994

But the king had been as wary as we were privy, and no less speedy than we; and he was a mighty and deft warrior, and he himself followed us on the spur with certain of his best men-at-arms.

The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008

Quotes with DEFT (3)

Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked up the next part and slotted it in, took the screwdriver from Claire's numbed fingers, and fastened it with a couple of deft, fast movements. "I'll be your hands." She wanted to cry, because it was so sweet, but it wouldn't do any good.

Rachel Caine Ghost Town

Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.

Tamora Pierce Bloodhound

Finally when he climbed below deck after dark, wondering where his dinner was, perhaps with a storm come up and rough seas and blinding rains, I'd sulk and lure him into the warm and steamy darkness and from the hairs of his warm body I'd breed a myriad smiling, sparkle-eyed one-year-olds, my broods, my flocks. In the churning seas, below the waves, together inside our hammock woven in coarse sailcloth by Unguentine's deft hands, a spherical webbed sack which hung and swivell…

Stanley Crawford Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 332 times in crossword archives (1965–2025).