Sharp - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 31/10/2023

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Sharp.

5 letter answer(s) to sharp

ACERB
  1. harsh or corrosive in tone;
  2. sour or bitter in taste
ACRID
  1. bitter
  2. harsh or corrosive in tone;
  3. strong and sharp;"the pungent taste of radishes"; "the acrid smell of burning rubber"
ACUTE
  1. a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
  2. ending in a sharp point
  3. extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning"
  4. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
  5. having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients"
  6. of an angle; less than 90 degrees
  7. of critical importance and consequence; "an acute (or critical) lack of research funds"
ALERT
  1. mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament"
  2. a warning serves to make you more alert to danger
  3. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
  4. condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action; "bombers were put on alert during the crisis"
  5. engaged in or accustomed to close observation; "caught by a couple of alert cops"; "alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came"; "constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty"
  6. quick and energetic;
  7. warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness; "The empty house alarmed him"; "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries"
CANNY
  1. showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"

7 letter answer(s) to sharp

ACERBIC
  1. harsh or corrosive in tone;
  2. Sharp, bitter tasting
  3. sour or bitter in taste
INFOCUS

4 letter answer(s) to sharp

ACID
  1. any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
  2. being sour to the taste
  3. harsh or corrosive in tone;
  4. having the characteristics of an acid; "an acid reaction"
  5. street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
CLER
FLAT
  1. (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat"
  2. a deflated pneumatic tire
  3. a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"
  4. a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
  5. a shallow box in which seedlings are started
  6. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
  7. commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market"
  8. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
  9. freight car without permanent sides or roof
  10. having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; "flat computer monitors"
  11. having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
  12. having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
  13. horizont
KEEN
  1. a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
  2. express grief verbally; "we lamented the death of the child"
  3. having a sharp cutting edge or point; "a keen blade"
  4. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
  5. intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure"
  6. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
  7. very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
TART
  1. a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust
  2. a small open pie with a fruit filling
  3. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
  4. harsh; "sharp criticism"; "a sharp-worded exchange"; "a tart remark"
  5. tasting sour like a lemon

6 letter answer(s) to sharp

ACIDIC
  1. being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a pH of less than 7)
  2. being sour to the taste
  3. In a caustic manner
ASTUTE
  1. clever
  2. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"
  3. Sharp
CLEVER
  1. mentally quick and resourceful; "an apt pupil"; "you are a clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold"-Bram Stoker
  2. showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem"
  3. showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"
  4. Witty
DRESSY
  1. in fancy clothing
POINTY
  1. Sharp
SHREWD
  1. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"
  2. used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
SNAZZY
  1. flashily stylish; "a snazzy outfit"

8 letter answer(s) to sharp

IN FOCUS
INCISIVE
  1. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
  2. suitable for cutting or piercing; "incisive teeth"

3 letter answer(s) to sharp

SLY
  1. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
  2. Sneaky

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Sharp'

"Heads up!," e.g.
"Look out below!," e.g.
(Of a blade) sharp
(Of an angle) less than 90º
(Of clothes) suitable for a smart occasion
*Siren ... danger ... per
A call at first clear and sharp
A charming accent
A charming sort of accent
A child regularly rejected tart
A clipped English accent
A cut from knife that's sharp
A darling becoming intense
A group of detectives, sharp
A pretty sharp accent
A quaintly pleasing French accent
A team of detectives is sharp
A warrant keeps Romeo on his toes
Ace detectives in charge becoming sour
Acidic in taste
Acute
Acute range of knowledge about Earth’s origin
Agog to see Wounded Knee
Alkali's opposite
American leader's pretty perceptive
Amino ___
Amino, for one
Angle type
Apartment
Apartment, to Brits
Apt to trick
Arch
Area with group of police in charge that's ill-natured
Area with rather attractive grave
Argus-eyed
Arsenal gutted - Everton's midfield is on the ball
Artful
Article pretty sharp-witted?
Ascorbic ___
Aspirin, e.g.
Assistance required to cover top of charcoal burner
Astringent
Astute
Astute on stage, one tamed daughter
Astute woman in outskirts of Coventry
Attentive
Attentive dealer taking part
Attentive porter possibly has right time
… Boatman on, say, tea and a pastry
é: what's over this letter - urgent
Backstairs
Bakery buy
Bakery product
Barbed
Barbed, in a way
Base's opposite
Battery contents
Battery fluid
Battery liquid
Beer crate oddly dropped on one's toes
Big test
Bill gets free bitter
Bit of Weather Channel ne
Biting
Biting - pastry
Biting account run by papers
Biting Bill to get free
Biting pie
Bitter
Bitter account by leading royal writer
Bitter account to deliver!
Bitter and sharp
Bitter as a native of Belgrade sounds?
Bitter Aussie rockers covering two singles separately
Bitter – sweet, possibly
Bitter cabin crew finally cut out
Bitter cold in desert
Bitter Conservative needs help all around
Bitter in taste - harsh in tone
Bitter sour? That's about right
Bitter tasting
Bitter writer sitting beneath tree
Bitter, bitter having leaked runs
Bitter, pungent
Bitterly pungent
Black stuff found on top of Turkish dessert
Blowout result
Boric ___
Boring place to live
Boring, with no relief
Breakdown cause
Bright - brilliant
Bright in bar after opening of curtains
Bright-eyed and bushy-tai
Bring in a number to help - sharpish!
Bubbleless
Burn cause
Bushy-tailed?
Caffeinated?
Cagy
Calculating
Canny
Canny, astute
Canny, like someone learning to finish early
Canny, mean-spirited woman and daughter
Capable Conservative means to apply pressure
Carbolic ___
Cause of much bellyaching
Causing a pucker
Caustic
Caustic - virulent
Charlie's bar is bright!
Citric ___
Clear, to a photographer
Clever being like that, you get somewhere at last
Clever bit: wife's seen through it
Clever Johnny!
Clever Kate Minola departs
Clever like King, briefly Egypt's leader
Clever, like pupil missing English at last
Conservative Party makes U-turn, being smart
Cool-looking
Corrosive liquid
Corrosive substance
Crafty
Crafty animal getting last of food
Critical
Critical to take steps about university strike, finally
Critical, serious
Cry “willing”!
Cunning
Cunning and deceitful
Cunning manipulation of statue
Cunning Sally shows only occasionally
Cunning wife getting into scrap
Cunning, crafty
Cunning, deceitful
Cunning; insinuating
Current means of identifying hallucinogen
Cut up about wife being clever
Cutting
Cutting from papers I found in a volume
Cutting papers seized by a military chief
Cutting pastry
Cyclist's problem
Dead level
Debunked theory after halt for refreshment
Deeply irritating
Designing
Dessert for one
Dessert restaurant served up
Detectives tucked into excellent cold tart
Devious
Digs away from hills?
Discerning
Disingenuous
Distinct details about superpower
Done with a wink
Done with a wink, maybe
Drain Armagnac, then free bitter
Drastic reduction in sales oddly overlooked
Driver's headache
Drug found in a police department
Drug user represented by a police chief
Dull pad?
Eager
Eager to display grief
Eager, enthusiastic
Eager; wail in grief
Eating stuff
Elegant
Elegant and formal
Elegant and witty, eases oddly inside
Enthusiastic
Etcher's fluid
Etcher's need
Etching liquid
Even - out of tune
Even - pitched too low
Even flipping 50%, initially switching heads and tails
Excellent book in mostly expensive binding offering harsh commentary
Extremely cheerful and always bright
Extremely sharp
Eye-stinging
Fancy
Fancy — disheartened squirrels trapped in their nest
Fancy, as clothes
Fine-edged
Firm to pay for copper
First and third of colours always bright
Fizzless
Fizzless, as a Coke
Fizzless, as a soft drink
Floozy
Folk art regularly is dull
Formal
Foxlike
Foxy
Fruity pastry
Furtive
Grave
Guileful
Gung-ho
Hard-headed wife interrupts scrap
Having a low pH
Having hardheaded intelligence
He's had a Rocky career
Heads up
Heads-up
Help to bottle cold substance that's corrosive
Help to secure credit coming with a sting
Highly developed knowledge about English
Highly intelligent
Holding steady
Honed
Horizontal - dull
Hot to trot
Hugger-mugger
Hydrochloric ___
Hydrofluoric ___
Ill-natured American police department
Ill-natured old leader of Uganda featured in account
Ingenious
Ingenious key comes with operating handle
Ingenious; skilful
Initially, Alexander's charming
Insidious
Insightful
Inspiration for Hunter S.
Intellectually active
Intelligent
Intelligent third party suffering reverse
Intelligent; skilful
Intense
Intense lamentation for the dead
Intent to show one’s grief
It has a low pH
It may be red
It needs some inflation
It provides proof of ace group of detectives attending sports event
It was dropped in the '60
It was dropped in the 60'
It’s artful and crafty, ultimately
It's clear dope's seized by copper? Quite the reverse
It's high when it's red
It's never right
It's not bubbly in large heavy bottles
Itching (to)
Jack may be needed to fix this note
Kansaslike
Keen
Keen helper catching cold
Keen on accepting right opening
Keen to get going without leader
Kind of dog
Kind of indigestion
Kind of rain
Kind of rock
Kind of test or rain
Kind of wit or test
Knowing
Knowing may dishearten Nancy or just upset her
Knowing someone like you for starters
Knowing when student fails to finish
Knowing when to find time in day
Knowledge about energy making you enthusiastic
Lament loudly
Lap dog
Large, obese all round: the result of a blow-out?
Lecturer accommodated in sizeable accommodation
Lemon juice, e.g.
Lemony
Lemony, e.g.
Less than 90
Less than 90 degrees
Less than right
Less than right?
Level
Life-threatening
Like a 45
Like a fox
Like a good guard
Like a Granny Smith apple
Like a pancake
Like a pancake?
Like a sloe
Like a three-card monte p
Like an eagle's vision
Like Argus
Like bons mots
Like crab apples
Like cranberries
Like crossword solvers
Like dogbane juice
Like earnings in some rep
Like enthusiast to some extent
Like gastric juice
Like good guards
Like lemonade sans sugar
Like Reynard
Like some accents
Like some apples
Like some digs
Like some French accents
Like some glances
Like some grins
Like some little heads
Like some rates
Like some triangles
Like some winks
Like sour grapes
Like the tops of dunce ca
Like the world to pre-Col
Like the world, to the an
Like thick smoke
Like vinaigrette
Like Wile E. Coyote
Liking to wear fancy or formal clothes
Lip-puckering
Listening
Little pastry
LSD
Mentally sharp
Minipie
Mischievous goddess keeps copper keen
Mordant
More than sarcastic
Motorist's woe
Musical note
Napoleon relative
Napoleon's cousin
Nasty
Neato
Needing to get keyed up?
Needing tuning, maybe
Neither obtuse nor grave
Nice, as clothes
Nifty
Nimble-minded
No longer fizzy
Nose-burning
Not basic
Not born yesterday
Not casual
Not chronic
Not easily misled
Not easily tricked
Not hilly
Not nodding
Not out of it
Not sloping
Not-to-be-trusted
Nothing's missed by card sharp
Notify
Notify of danger
Observant
Obtuse's opposite
Off-key, in a way
Off-pitch
On one's toes
On the ball
On the ball, shimmying later
On the dot
On the map
On the qui vive
On the ___ (furtively)
One chapter ending writer's cutting
One empty beer returned for bitter
One king with pen that's sharp
One way to be turned down
One way to fall
Open fruit pie
Open-eyed
Ornate
Overweight cops left for dead
Parched having to swallow cold bitter
Parched swallowing cold bitter
Parietal cell secretion
Part of a knave's loot, i
Paying attention
Penetrating
Perceptive
Perceptive, like trade union leaders in the eighties
Perspicacious
Piece about wife that's foxy
Piercing
Pitched too low
Plain paper covering almost everything up
Pointless opening bitter
Pressing
Prudent to move medical facility out of food processing plant
Pucker-producing
Punctured
Pungent
Pungent account run by certain papers
Pungent canine with dry coat
Pungent plant without European identity
Pungent-smelling
Pupil covered in lard entirely
Quick
Quick to understand
Quick-witted
Quite sharp
Raspberry ___
Razor-sharp
Ready
Ready for anything
Ready to jump, perhaps
Ready to react, perhaps
Red ash
Red flag
Red flag, e.g.
Requiring a tie
Rocky, really
Roguish
Run out of caustic chemical
Savvy
Scheming
Sculpted statue - that's clever!
Secretive and occasionally sulky
See 26
Serious injury from blade brought into A&E
Serious reduction in hospital department
Serve Republican British bitter
Severe
Severe laceration seen in hospital department
Severe reduction in A & E
Sharp - acid
Sharp - biting
Sharp - express grief
Sharp - sardonic
Sharp - statue
Sharp American spies returned to protect detectives
Sharp and tart? That's about right
Sharp as a tack
Sharp as Old King Cole in the end
Sharp causing laceration in casualty
Sharp Conservative stopping benefit
Sharp cousin, several times removed, biting head off fellow
Sharp finesse leading with fourth in suit
Sharp intelligence unit over to entrap investigators
Sharp knife wound admitted to A&E
Sharp police unit infiltrating revolutionary spies
Sharp pressure to abandon university before end of May
Sharp, acidic
Sharp, forthright
Sharp-tasting
Sharp-tasting dessert
Sharp-tasting, sour
Sharp-tongued
Sharp; pastry
Sharply focused
Shrewd
Shrewd expression of disapproval, entering turbulent sea
Shrewd girl in outskirts of Coventry
Shrewd hacker no amateur
Shrewd like famous pharaoh, leader of Egyptians
Shrewd like trustee, every now and then
Shrewd, perceptive
Signal from whaler transmitted
Signal warning of danger
Siren
Slick
Slippery
Sluggish car going from 1 to 50?
Small pastry
Small pie
Smart
Smart and silly, alternately
Smart bar to east of Croatia's capital
Smart Conservative crank?
Smart person that's second in Paris occupying fantastic seat
Smart, formal
Sneaking
Sneaky
Snippy
Some domestic leverets, by no means hare-brained
Some make enquiries, full of enthusiasm
Something corrosive in a police department
Something hopped right on your toes
Sour
Sour - acid
Sour - vitriolic
Sour in taste
Sour or bitter
Sour-tasting
Stale wind sends American packing
Stallone's nickname
Stallone, to pals
Statue is demolished — shrewd!
Statue's awful cute
Stealthy
Still an apartment
Still lacking place in compound for trip
Still no place for tart
Stinging
Stomach botherer
Stone of rock
Stops losing time over middle of day? That's smart
Street-smart
Strong and sharp
Stylish
Stylish Tessa coming out of her shell, outwardly dull
Stylish, clean and young
Support needed to hold C sharp
Surreptitious
Sweet things like to embrace detectives and dribble
Tangy starters of tomato and Roquefort tortellini
Target of milk of magnesi
Tart
Tart and custard isn’t desirable in courses — just starters
Tart detailed swinging first of ill-advised punches
The "A" in DNA
Thinking cannily when Egyptian King’s heading for Egypt
Three cardinals with boring clothing? Far from it
Timothy Leary dropped it
Tip off
Tire mishap
Tongue-curling
Top-notch crust of rhubarb tart
Tornado siren, e.g.
Trenchant
Trenchant; acute
Tricky
Trip facilitator from Cuba's capital financing tours
Trip provider needs current credentials
Truck on edges of Canberra turned sharp
Unchanged
Underhanded
Unexciting
Unexciting accommodation
Unexciting sort of note
Uninteresting accommodation
Uninteresting form of horse racing
Unlike base with a forensic force in charge
Unpleasantly bitter
Unpleasantly pungent
Unqualified character on the staff
Urgent
Using trickery
Very bitter or pungent
Very enthusiastic
Very perceptive
Very sensitive
Very sharp
Very stylish
Vicious
Vigilant
Vigilant owner ultimately enters a rental property
Vigilant prince consort ditches bishop
Vigilantly attentive
Vinegar, for one
Vinegary
Vulpine
Wail like a banshee
Wakeful
Warn
Warn a swimmer finally coming into contact with net?
Warn distant relative over display
Warning
Warning from jobcentre lady when coming back
Warning from porter perhaps emptied restaurant
Warning of danger
Warning signal after alcoholic drink? Right
Warning: American service of poor quality after Republican's put in
Warning: beer leads to recall trouble
Watchful
Wearing stylish clothing
Weaselly
Well-tuned
What turns blue litmus paper red
Where one may reside even?
Where one might stay depressed
Whistle, for one
Whistle, maybe
Wide awake later with the jitters
Wide-awake
Wide-eyed
Wily
Wily like ancient king, leader in Egypt
Wily little long-nosed animal digging primarily
Winking, maybe
Wise to have statue moved
With ears pricked
With it
Witty
Woman's shoe
Word often preceded by a
Word with rock or rain
Worldly-wise
Yellow ___
You won't go far with this sort of note
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