The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SHREWD
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SHREWD
- Cut up about wife being clever
- Sharp fragment containing tungsten
- Sharp-witted vixen close to fold
- Knowing fury, daughter
- Wily little long-nosed animal digging primarily
- Penetrating end of arrow splits atom
- Canny, mean-spirited woman and daughter
- Hard-nosed quiet wife invested in claret?
- Crafty personnel to mend bridges with head of department
- Cunning little animal hid at the back
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What does SHREWD mean?
SHREWD adjective- Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
- Artful, tricky or cunning.
- Streetwise.
- Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.
- Nigh accurate.
- Severe, intense, hard.
- Sharp, snithy, piercing.
- Bad, evil, threatening.
- Portending, boding.
- Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.
- Abusive, shrewish.
- Scolding, satirical, sharp.