"Smooth Operator" singer
The crossword clue ""Smooth Operator" singer" is answered by SADE, a 4-letter entry. Used 192 times across 32 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 38 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
The answer
SADE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SADE answer page.
Used 192 times across 32 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 38 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 pilot answered by SADE, most used first.
- Marquis de ___ - used 137 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Pilot clues 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.
- Singer Guthrie - ARLO, used 349 times
- Singer Fitzgerald - ELLA, used 268 times
- Singer Redding - OTIS, used 246 times
- "At Last" singer James - ETTA, used 215 times
- Singer James - ETTA, used 197 times
- Singer McEntire - REBA, used 189 times
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