The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word SLY which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Cunning crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SLY | 39 % | 3 |
| GUILE | 11 % | 5 |
| WILY | 11 % | 4 |
| FOXY | 6 % | 4 |
| ART | 5 % | 3 |
| ARCH | 5 % | 4 |
| SLYNESS | 5 % | 7 |
| ARTFUL | 3 % | 6 |
| ASTUTE | 2 % | 6 |
| CUTE | 2 % | 4 |
| WILE | 2 % | 4 |
| WILES | 2 % | 5 |
| SLYASAFOX | 1 % | 9 |
| SHREWD | 1 % | 6 |
| CAGY | 1 % | 4 |
| CAGEY | 1 % | 5 |
| CLEVER | 1 % | 6 |
| CRAFT | 1 % | 5 |
| CRAFTY | 1 % | 6 |
| FOXINESS | 0 % | 8 |
| ASTUTENESS | 0 % | 10 |
| WILINESS | 0 % | 8 |
| DEVIOUS | 0 % | 7 |
| SNEAKINESS | 0 % | 10 |
| SNEAKY | 0 % | 6 |
| GUILEFUL | 0 % | 8 |
| INGENUITY | 0 % | 9 |
Why may SLY be the right solution?
The word "sly" means being clever or crafty in a secretive way, which perfectly matches the clue "cunning."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cunning
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- sly
- craftiness
- wily
- slyness
- tricksy
- wiliness
- guile
- artful
- guileful
- knavish
- crafty
- dodgy
Crossword Answer definitions
SLY adjective- Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
- (having a positive sense) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice
- Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
- Light or delicate; slight; thin.
- Slyly.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SLY
- Crafty
- Clever like Stallone?
- Cunning
- Like a fox
- Underhanded
- Clever like a fox
- Leader of the Family Stone
- Sneaky
- Stallone sobriquet
- Stallone, in the tabloids
More clues leading to the result GUILE
- Artful deception
- Cunning
- Sly quality
- Sneaky manner
- Trickery
- Iago's talent
- Craftiness
- Duplicity
- Shrewdness
- Wiliness
More clues leading to the result WILY
- Like a fox
- Sly
- Cunning
- Full of guile
- Crafty
- Astute
- Slick
- Skillfully deceptive
- Skilled at deception
- Crazy like a fox
More clues leading to the result FOXY
More clues leading to the result ART
- Actor Carney
- Humorist Buchwald
- Part of MOMA
- Paul's ex-singing partner
- Pollack pieces
- Pollock's profession
- Prado display
- Show piece
- Singer Garfunkel
- Technique
More clues leading to the result ARCH
- St. Louis sight
- Eyebrow shape
- Foot part
- St. Louis gateway
- St. Louis landmark
- Eero Saarinen's Gateway __
- Podiatrist's concern
- Gateway structure
- Cunning
- Curved entryway
More clues leading to the result SLYNESS
- Craft
- Guile
- Artifice
- Cunning
- Foxy quality
- Wile that fails Wile E.
- Foxy attribute
- Foxy trait
- Artful quality
- Fox's quality
More clues leading to the result ARTFUL
- Like Dickens's Dodger
- Cunning
- Like a certain Dodger
- Clever
- Like the Dodger in "Oliver!"
- Crafty
- Sly
- Imaginative
- Like Dickens' Dodger
- Like a memorable Dodger
More clues leading to the result ASTUTE
- Sharp as a tack
- Sharp as tacks
- Shrewd
- Insightful
- On the ball
- Very clever
- No dummy
- Very perceptive
- Sagacious
- Clever
More clues leading to the result CUTE
- Darling
- Precious
- Adorable
- "Aww"-inducing
- Aww-inspiring
- Just adorable
- Attractive
- Like many an animal picture on the web
- Charmingly attractive
- Fetching
More clues leading to the result WILE
- __ E. Coyote
- Stratagem
- Bit of chicanery
- Scheming
- Sneaky trick
- Trick
- Artifice
- Sly stratagem
- Beguiling trick
- Pass, with "away"
More clues leading to the result WILES
- Beguiling behavior
- Cunning ways
- British mathematician who proved Fermat's last theorem
- Trickery
- Cunning
- Charms
- Bits of cunning
- Arts
- Trickery arsenal
- Sneaky stratagems
More clues leading to the result SLYASAFOX
- Really sneaky
- Crafty
- Cunning
- Quite sneaky
- "Cunning" cliché.
- Showing animal cunning
- Wily
- Quite cunning
- Very cunning
- Machiavellian
More clues leading to the result SHREWD
More clues leading to the result CAGY
More clues leading to the result CAGEY
- Cautious, as a reply
- Shrewd
- Cautious
- Evasive
- Hardly open
- Cleverly guarded
- Sly
- Cautiously shrewd
- Somewhat shrewd
- Wary: Slang.
More clues leading to the result CLEVER
More clues leading to the result CRAFT
- Construct carefully
- Skill
- Carpentry or bookbinding, e.g.
- Create
- ___ beer (microbrewer's creation)
- Woodwork or macrame
- Macramé, say
- Vessel
- Skilled practice
- Artistic skill
More clues leading to the result CRAFTY
More clues leading to the result FOXINESS
More clues leading to the result ASTUTENESS
More clues leading to the result WILINESS
More clues leading to the result DEVIOUS
- Sneaky
- Cunning
- Playing games, so to speak
- Calculating
- Not straightforward.
- Roundabout
- Crafty
- Not on the level
- Tricky ... or a tricky description of 18-, 29-, 36-, 48- and 59-Across
- Underhanded
More clues leading to the result SNEAKINESS
More clues leading to the result SNEAKY
- Surreptitous
- Like Pete
- Double-dealing
- Underhanded
- Secretive
- Furtive
- Deceitful
- Duplicitous
- Cunning
- Disingenuous