Penetrating
The crossword clue "Penetrating" is answered by ACUTE, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ACUTE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ACUTE answer page.
Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- TRENCHANT (3 uses in xd)
- INCISIVE (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for ACUTE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ACUTE, most used first.
- Sharp - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
- Less than 90 degrees - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Intense - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Keen - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
- Like some angles - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Less than right - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Severe - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Critical - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Sharp, as eyesight - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Not obtuse - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Type of angle - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Crucial - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
- Kind of angle - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
- Opposite of obtuse - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Like some accents - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Keenly perceptive - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Sharp, as pain - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Like a 45-degree angle - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Biting - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Not chronic - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Not quite right? - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Perceptive - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Sharp as a tack - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Very sharp - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Sharp, as vision - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Extreme, as pain - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Angle type - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Less than 90° - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Sharp-witted - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Poignant. - used 7 times, most recently in 1979
- Shrewd - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Finely honed - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Grave - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Sharp or severe - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Very perceptive - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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