The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word HURTS , but the solution may also be WISDOM which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in LA Times).
Smarts crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HURTS | 22 % | 5 |
| SENSE | 20 % | 5 |
| STINGS | 17 % | 6 |
| HORSESENSE | 8 % | 10 |
| ACHES | 7 % | 5 |
| BRAINS | 5 % | 6 |
| GOODSENSE | 5 % | 9 |
| WITS | 3 % | 4 |
| WISDOM | 3 % | 6 |
| ACUMEN | 3 % | 6 |
| REASON | 2 % | 6 |
| BRAINPOWER | 2 % | 10 |
| KNOWHOW | 2 % | 7 |
| STREET | 2 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Smarts
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- clever
- intelligent
- shrewd
- stylish
- astute
- bright
- canny
- sharp
- snappy
- fashionable
- chic
- fresh
Crossword Answer definitions
HURTS noun- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
- Injury; damage; detriment; harm
- A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
- A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
- To be painful.
- To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
- To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- To undermine, impede, or damage.
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 HURTS
- Injures
- Experiences pain
- Needs acetaminophen
- "Hey! That ___!"
- "Ow" inducers
- Causes distress
- Smarts
- Feels bad
- Wrongs
- John Cougar's "___ So Good"
More clues leading to the result SENSE
- Common quality?
- Feel
- Good judgment
- Have a feeling
- Purpose
- Sixth __
- "Common __" (1776 tract)
- Common ___ (Thomas Paine essay)
- Common or taste
- Feeling
More clues leading to the result STINGS
- Con games
- Swindles
- Undercover jobs
- Feels like a lash
- Bee batteries
- Drones don't deliver them
- Scorpion attacks
- Undercover operations
- Wasp woes
- Bee bites
More clues leading to the result HORSESENSE
- Sound judgment
- Wisdom when using a carpenter's support?
- Smarts
- Savvy
- Mister Ed-ucation?
- Practical judgment
- Natural good judgment
- Good judgment
- Good thinking
- Natural wisdom
More clues leading to the result ACHES
- Needs liniment
- Feels compassion
- Longs for
- Smarts
- Sore spots
- Tummy troubles
- Yearns
- Yearns painfully
- Pains' partner
- Pines (for)
More clues leading to the result BRAINS
- Mastermind
- Intelligence
- Smarts
- Eggheads
- They may be picked at meetings
- Gray matter
- Really smart people
- Thinking things
- Smartness
- Important possession of a former "trust."
More clues leading to the result GOODSENSE
- Practical intelligence
- Decision maker's asset
- Smarts
- Savvy
- What Pope called "the gift of Heav'n."
- Shrewdness
- Logic
More clues leading to the result WITS
- Funny fellows
- Brains
- Improv comedy troupe members
- Improv troupe members
- Marbles, figuratively
- Jokesters
- Fast thinkers
- Sanity
- Marbles
- Intelligence
More clues leading to the result WISDOM
- Solomon's specialty
- Solomon's trait
- Solomon's strength
- Sound judgment
- Pearls' makeup?
- It may be conventional
- "We get very little __ from success": Saroyan
- What pearls may contain?
- What may be dispensed in pearls?
- Smarts
More clues leading to the result ACUMEN
- Shrewdness
- Keenness of judgment
- Discernment
- Smarts
- Perspicacity
- Keenness of mind
- Sagacity
- Keen insight
- Insightful quality
- Astuteness
More clues leading to the result REASON
- Cause
- Mr. Spock's logic
- Smarts
- Why or wherefore
- Intellectual power
- Logic
- Think logically
- Left brain's forte, supposedly
- Use logic
- Use one's noodle
More clues leading to the result BRAINPOWER
More clues leading to the result KNOWHOW
- Expertise
- Aptitude
- Savvy
- Synonym for the last words of 17- and 64-Across and 11- and 29-Down
- Savvy.
- Practical skill.
- Practical skill: Colloq.
- Expertise.
- Ability
- Smarts