Quick and skillful
The crossword clue "Quick and skillful" is answered by DEFT, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 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 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- Highly skilled - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- 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
- Agile - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Clever - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Expert - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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