Mental acuity

The answer

WITS

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

Used 17 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• BRAINS (1 uses in xd)
• SHARPWITTEDNESS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for WITS

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

• Funny folks - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Mental faculties - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Common sense - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Clever people - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• "I'm at my ___ end!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Ingenuity - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
• Sanity - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Cleverness - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Clever ones - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Intelligence - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Keep your ___ about you - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Resourcefulness - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Shrewdness - 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.

• Mental flash - IDEA, used 51 times
• Mental spark - IDEA, used 20 times
• Mental germ - IDEA, used 13 times
• Mental picture - IDEA, used 13 times
• Mental image - IDEA, used 10 times
• Mental impression - IDEA, used 10 times

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