Like a smooth operator
The crossword clue "Like a smooth operator" is answered by SUAVE, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
SUAVE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SUAVE answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SUAVE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SUAVE, most used first.
- Debonair - used 70 times, most recently in 2025
- Urbane - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
- Socially smooth - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Polished - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
- Shampoo brand - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Smooth - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Smooth-talking - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Sophisticated - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Like James Bond - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Smoothly polite - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Socially polished - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Blandly urbane - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Smooth-tongued - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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 transition - SEGUE, used 107 times
- Like some seals - EARED, used 89 times
- "As You Like It" forest - ARDEN, used 79 times
- Like Cheerios - OATEN, used 79 times
- Like draft beer - ONTAP, used 74 times
- Like a lot - ADORE, used 72 times
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