Smoothly polite
The crossword clue "Smoothly polite" is answered by SUAVE, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1953. 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
SUAVE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SUAVE answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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 a smooth operator - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Like James Bond - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- 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.
- Polite refusal - NOSIR, used 86 times
- Polite denial - NOSIR, used 39 times
- Polite - CIVIL, used 37 times
- Move smoothly - GLIDE, used 30 times
- Less polite - RUDER, used 29 times
- More polite - NICER, used 21 times
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