Subtly spiteful
The crossword clue "Subtly spiteful" is answered by CATTY, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CATTY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CATTY answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CATTY
Every other clue in this collection answered by CATTY, most used first.
- Spiteful - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
- Slyly spiteful - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Malicious - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Slyly malicious - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Feline - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Spiteful - NASTY, used 29 times
- Subtly suggested - GOTAT, used 13 times
- Subtly suggest - GETAT, used 12 times
- Suggested subtly - GOTAT, used 8 times
- Subtly illuminated - AGLOW, used 6 times
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