Highly skilled
The crossword clue "Highly skilled" is answered by DEFT, a 4-letter entry. Used 15 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. 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
DEFT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEFT answer page.
Used 15 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. 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
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Other clues for DEFT
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEFT, most used first.
- Skillful - used 114 times, most recently in 2026
- Adroit - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Dexterous - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
- Nimble-fingered - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Nimble - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Skilled - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Adept - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Artful - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Handy - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Slick - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Quick and skillful - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Agile - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Clever - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Expert - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Skilled - ABLE, used 156 times
- Highly excited - AGOG, used 57 times
- Highly rated - AONE, used 57 times
- Praise highly - LAUD, used 43 times
- Sufficiently skilled - ABLE, used 24 times
- Speak highly of - LAUD, used 19 times
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