Inventive
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

SLY
Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

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WILY
Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

WARY
Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

FOXY
Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

DEEP
Literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep"

CUTE
Obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms"

ARCH
(architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it

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VIVID
(of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue"

SNAKY
Resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky ridges in the sand"

SLICK
A trowel used to make a surface slick

SHARP
Quick and forceful; "a sharp blow"

READY
Completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress; "get ready"; "she is ready to resign"; "the bridge is ready to collapse"; "I am ready to work"; "ready for action"; "ready for use"; "the soup will be ready in a minute"; "ready to learn to read"

PRIME
A number that has no factor but itself and 1

NATAL
A port city in northeastern Brazil

FETAL
Of or relating to a fetus; "fetal development"

PAWKY
Cunning and sly; "the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants"- Punch

CANNY
Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"

ACUTE
A mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

CAGEY
Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"

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TRICKY
Having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"

SUPPLE
Moving and bending with ease

SUBTLE
Able to make fine distinctions; "a subtle mind"

SNEAKY
Marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods"

SMOOTH
The act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth"

SHIFTY
Characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes"

PRIMAL
Serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"

SHREWD
Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"

INFANT
A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; "the baby began to cry again"; "she held the baby in her arms"; "it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different"

FELINE
Any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws

FECUND
Intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"

CRAFTY
Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

CLEVER
Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"

ASTUTE
Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"

ARTFUL
Marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"

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TRICKSY
Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

SEMINAL
Containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another"

PRIMARY
A preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen

POLITIC
Marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply"

NASCENT
Being born or beginning; "the nascent chicks"; "a nascent insurgency"

KNOWING
A clear and certain mental apprehension

INITIAL
The first letter of a word (especially a person's name); "he refused to put the initials FRS after his name"

FURTILE

CUNNING
Showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem"

BUDDING
Reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent

VULPINE
Resembling or characteristic of a fox; "vulpine cunning"

TEEMING
Abundantly filled with especially living things; "the Third World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard"

SUBTILE

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SHAPEING

CREATIVE
Promoting construction or creation; "creative work"

VISIONED

TRICKISH

SLEATHLY

TACTICAL
Of or pertaining to tactic or tactics; "a tactical error"

STEALTHY
Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"

SLIPPERY
Causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are still slippy from the rain"

PROLIFIC
Intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"

SCHEMING
Concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger"

PREGNANT
Carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life

NOTIONAL
Being of the nature of a notion or concept; "a plan abstract and conceptional"; "to improve notional comprehension"; "a notional response to the question"

ORIGINAL
An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made

PRIMEVAL
Having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"

INSPIRED
Being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"

PRENATAL
Occurring or existing before birth; "the prenatal period"; "antenatal care"

INCHOATE
Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"

INTHEBUD

INEMBRYO

GERMINAL
Containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another"

FRUITFUL
Productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply"

IDEATIVE

DEEPLAID

GUILEFUL
Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

CREATION
(theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence

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STRATEGIC
Highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war; "a strategic chess move"; "strategic withdrawal"; "strategic bombing missions"

PRIMITIVE
A mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

POSTNATAL
Occurring immediately after birth; "postnatal development"

INSIDIOUS
Working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"

INFANTILE
Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant; "infantile games"

INCIPIENT
Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"

INCEPTIVE

INAUGURAL
The ceremonial induction into a position; "the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration"

GESTATORY

FORMATIVE
Minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function

EMBRYONIC
In an early stage of development; "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"

ELEMENTAL
Relating to or being an element; "elemental sulphur"

DESIGNING
The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instrument"

DEMIURGIC

DECEITFUL
Intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

CAUSATIVE
Producing an effect; "poverty as a causative factor in crime"

BEGINNING
The act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"

ANTENATAL
Occurring or existing before birth; "the prenatal period"; "antenatal care"

INGENIOUS
Showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem"

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SERPENTINE
Resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky ridges in the sand"

RUDIMENTAL

PRODUCTIVE
Yielding positive results

PARTURIENT
Of or relating to or giving birth; "parturient pangs"; "the parturient uterus"

INNOVATIVE
Being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before; "stylistically innovative works"; "innovative members of the artistic community"; "a mind so innovational, so original"

INITIATIVE
The first of a series of actions

INITIATORY
Serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"

ELEMENTORY

ELEMENTARY
Easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"