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 LA Times in 2020.
Surreptitious crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SLY | 70 % | 3 |
| UNDERCOVER | 13 % | 10 |
| STEALTHY | 7 % | 8 |
| COVERT | 7 % | 6 |
| BACKDOOR | 3 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Surreptitious
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- stealthy
- sneaky
- sneak
- undercover
- furtive
- hole-and-corner
- cloak-and-dagger
- covert
- clandestine
- skulking
- hugger-mugger
- on the quiet
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 UNDERCOVER
- Working out of public sight
- Secret
- Carried out in secret
- Secret, as an investigation
- Acting in secret.
- Surreptitious.
- How a secret agent works.
- Kind of agent.
- Hidden.
- Kind of agent
More clues leading to the result STEALTHY
- Like a thief in the night
- Furtive
- K G
- Like a preying lion
- Like a ninja
- Like a sneak thief
- Underhand
- Like ninjas
- Like a cat burglar
- Catfooted
More clues leading to the result COVERT
- Camouflaged, perhaps
- Like a dirty-tricks campaign
- Disguised
- Concealed
- Clandestine
- Underhanded
- Like a CIA operation
- Like many CIA ops
- Hush-hush
- Like some operations