"Smooth Operator" chanteuse

The answer

SADE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SADE answer page.

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SADE

Every other clue in this collection answered by SADE, most used first.

• "Smooth Operator" singer - used 192 times, most recently in 2026
• Marquis de ___ - used 137 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Sweetest Taboo" singer - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• "No Ordinary Love" singer - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Infamous marquis - used 13 times, most recently in 2007
• "Maureen" singer - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• One-named Nigerian singer - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Pop singer from Nigeria - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• "Sweetest Taboo" singer - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
• 1986 Best New Artist Grammy winner - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Nigerian-born pop star - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
• Nigerian-born singer - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Notorious marquis - used 7 times, most recently in 2000
• Nigerian-born pop singer - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• "Soldier of Love" singer - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• The Marquis de __ - used 6 times, most recently in 2007

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.

• Smooth-talking - GLIB, used 148 times
• Computer operator - USER, used 84 times
• Smooth - EVEN, used 82 times
• Chanteuse Edith - PIAF, used 45 times
• Chanteuse Horne - LENA, used 41 times
• Smooth-tongued - GLIB, used 38 times

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