The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SMART , but the solution may also be SMARTASAWHIP which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Sting crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SMART | 46 % | 5 |
| SCAM | 17 % | 4 |
| BARB | 7 % | 4 |
| CONJOB | 5 % | 6 |
| CON | 5 % | 3 |
| TRAP | 5 % | 4 |
| BITE | 4 % | 4 |
| BILK | 2 % | 4 |
| CONGAME | 1 % | 7 |
| ENTRAP | 1 % | 6 |
| HORNETSBITE | 1 % | 11 |
| ZAP | 1 % | 3 |
| GOAD | 1 % | 4 |
| SMARTASAWHIP | 1 % | 12 |
| NETTLE | 1 % | 6 |
Why may SMARTASAWHIP be the right solution?
The word "sting" can mean to hurt or harm, but it can also mean a smart or clever remark. "Smart as a whip" is an idiom that means quick-witted or clever, making it a fitting answer to the clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Sting
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- bite
- twinge
- prick
- stick
- hustle
- flimflam
- burn
- con
- gyp
- pang
- bunko
- bunco
Crossword Answer definitions
SMART verb- To hurt or sting.
- To cause a smart or sting in.
- To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.
- Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
- Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
- (often in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
- Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
- Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
- Sudden and intense.
- Causing sharp pain; stinging.
- Sharp; keen; poignant.
- (Southern) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
- Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
- Pretentious; showy; spruce.
- Brisk; fresh.
- A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
- Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
- Smart-money.
- A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.
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 SMART
- 99's husband, on '60s TV
- Kind of cookie
- Sting
- Maxwell ___ (Agent 86)
- Witty
- He was in control
- Stylish
- Chic
- Nattily dressed
- Kind of money
More clues leading to the result SCAM
- Sting
- Get-rich-quick offering, often
- Hoodwink
- Shell game, e.g.
- Con game
- Con man's trick
- Deceptive act
- Pyramid scheme?
- Three-card monte, for one
- Flimflam
More clues leading to the result BARB
- Hook
- Zinger
- Sarcastic remark
- Cutting remark
- Fishhook feature
- Dig
- Dorothy Parker comment, typically
- Spike on a wire
- Unfriendly remark
- Fishhook part
More clues leading to the result CONJOB
More clues leading to the result CON
- Jailer's charge
- Man in the pen
- Joint tenant
- Kind of game
- Take for a ride
- Thimblerig
- Swindle
- __ brio
- One who didn't dodge a charge?
- Spam, often (and the start of a split order of rice porridge)
More clues leading to the result TRAP
- "The Parent ____"
- "The Tender ___"
- Clay-pigeon launcher
- Mouth, slangily
- Pitfall
- Ensnare
- Golf course hazard
- Golf hazard
- Headache for Tiger Woods
- Lint spot
More clues leading to the result BITE
- Insect sting
- Letter-carrier's occupational hazard
- Quick meal
- __ the dust (be defeated)
- Mark of Dracula
- Put some teeth into
- Sharpness
- Chomp
- Sound __ (brief broadcast)
- Take the bait
More clues leading to the result BILK
More clues leading to the result CONGAME
- Scam
- Swindle
- It's a "sting"
- Hustle
- Sting
- Racket
- Swindler's routine.
- It may be played on a mark
- Scam ... or an apt title for this puzzle?
- Pig in a poke or pigeon drop
More clues leading to the result ENTRAP
- Catch in a snare
- Catch, in a way
- Lure into wrongdoing
- Set up
- Snare
- Catch in
- Frame
- Lead into temptation?
- Catch in a sting
- Bag
More clues leading to the result HORNETSBITE
More clues leading to the result ZAP
- Do in with a ray-gun
- Nuke
- Cook in a microwave
- Hit with a ray gun
- Microwave
- Shoot a la Flash Gordon
- Erase a file
- Tase, say
- Classic sci-fi sound
- Cook in the microwave
More clues leading to the result GOAD
More clues leading to the result SMARTASAWHIP
- Very intelligent
- See 61A
- Hardly half-witted
- Really bright
- Compliment for Marquis de Sade?
- Brainy
- Very bright
- Really brainy
- Sting?