Lacking the knack
The crossword clue "Lacking the knack" is answered by INEPT, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. 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
INEPT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the INEPT answer page.
Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for INEPT
Every other clue in this collection answered by INEPT, most used first.
- Bumbling - used 171 times, most recently in 2026
- All thumbs - used 144 times, most recently in 2026
- Clumsy - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
- Bungling - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Klutzy - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Awkward - used 27 times, most recently in 2010
- Ham-handed - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Lacking skill - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Maladroit - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Not up to the task - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Incompetent - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Without any skill - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Hapless - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Like Inspector Clouseau - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
- Butterfingered - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Clueless - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Clumsy as an ox - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Hardly handy - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Not competent - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Unskillful - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Useless - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Ham-fisted - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- In the know - AWARE, used 356 times
- To the point - TERSE, used 194 times
- Take the wheel - STEER, used 188 times
- Cream of the crop - ELITE, used 175 times
- In the lead - AHEAD, used 166 times
- Of the kidneys - RENAL, used 166 times
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