Word "SUBTLE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
Synonyms:
elusive
Examples:
his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change
a subtle difference

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
Synonyms:
insidious, pernicious
Examples:
a subtle poison

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
able to make fine distinctions
Examples:
a subtle mind

Crossword Clues for SUBTLE

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Delicate caption omits euphemism for sex The Times Cryptic 28 Aug 2025
Ingenious. cunning (6)
Carefully understated Newsday 23 Jun 2025
Hard to detect (6)
Delicate, refined (6)
Understated bustle in the works (6)
Di cult to detect
Discreet suggestion, ... hint
Barely detectable: - change
Delicate and understated
Opposite of overt
Delicate or faint
Let bus turn faint (6)
Ingenious aid for watching a film? It is overlooked (6)
Delicate or understated (6)
But little Leslie can be so cunning!
Finely nuanced (6) The Guardian Quick 23 Jan 2025
Nuanced Eugene Sheffer 02 Jan 2025
Far from obvious, a ... change
Bustle around, it's implied (6) Puzzler Cryptic 05 Dec 2024
Nuanced Eugene Sheffer 05 Dec 2024
Understated The Telegraph Quick 06 Nov 2024
But Les can be so elusive!
Hard to pick up on
...but Les became faint...
Ingenious passenger vehicle set-up finds let-out (6)
It's not obvious, the way bustle was redesigned (6)
It can be elusive, to bustle about like this (6)
Impalpable, elusive (6)
Nuanced Eugene Sheffer 24 Jun 2024
Faint in a bustle, perhaps (6)
Understated, lowkey (6)
Understated caption - it's released (6)
Bustle about in a crafty way (6)
Rarefied version of blues around beginning of tango (6)
Nice, ingenious (6)
Not obvious; ingenious (6)
Understated, faint The Times Concise 02 Apr 2024
Bluest (anag)(6)
Cunningly contrived
Bustle around, it's implied (6) Puzzler Cryptic 05 Mar 2024
That's an insidious way to be let on a bus!
Delicate newspaper worker let off (6)
Not immediately obvious
Faint, delicate (6)
Bluest (anag.); bustle (anag.); sublet (anag.) (6)
Refined bachelor overwhelmed by uncontrolled lust on ecstasy (6)
Let us be delicate (6)
Bustle around being inconspicuous (6)
Philip Pullman novel, The - - - Knife
Not immediately obvious it is not included in secondary name (6)
Fine- drawn (6)
Fine, delicate (6) Puzzler 24 Nov 2023
Delicate, slight (6)
Understated The Telegraph Quick 25 Aug 2023
Nuanced Eugene Sheffer 07 Jul 2023
Hard to grasp Wall Street Journal 09 Jan 2023
Like a nuanced view? It’s not evident in words on screen The Times Cryptic 24 May 2022
Delicately complex or understated Irish Times Simplex 11 May 2022
Nuanced translation of dialogue ignores it The Guardian Cryptic 06 May 2022
Nuanced translation of dialogue ignores it
Underwater craft let loose, not immediately obvious The Times Cryptic 06 May 2022
Understated or not immediately obvious Irish Times Simplex 04 Apr 2022
Understated, it should be expunged from screen translation The Times Cryptic 14 Jan 2022
Not immediately obvious, understated Irish Times Simplex 06 Dec 2021
Able to make fine distinctions The Guardian Quick 21 Oct 2021
Delicately complex and understated Irish Times Simplex 12 Oct 2021
None too obvious Thomas Joseph 31 Aug 2021
Slight; elusive The Times Concise 26 Aug 2021
Not immediately obvious, understated Irish Times Simplex 17 Jul 2021
Nuanced Premier Sunday 04 Jul 2021
Like nuances Newsday 02 Jul 2021
None too obvious Thomas Joseph 22 Jun 2021
It's fine to hurry when bus turns up
Refined what some tenants may do when rent finally gets raised
Fine under hat, one invisible
America backed Biden-Trump leadership election? At first, it's not obvious
. Slight reserve tense facing Bale? Not half
Delicately complex and understated Irish Times Simplex 26 Nov 2020
Not immediately obvious, understated Irish Times Simplex 28 Sep 2020
Nuanced Newsday 05 Aug 2020
Understated The Telegraph Quick 15 Nov 2019
Hard to get New York Times 02 May 2019
Toned-down bluest dress Irish Times Crosaire 26 Apr 2019
Understated, not obvious Irish Times Simplex 28 Mar 2019
It gets lost in translation on screen? Fine
Hard to get
Delicate, understated Irish Times Simplex 18 Dec 2018
Delicate, elusive Irish Times Simplex 01 Dec 2018
Not obvious Universal 26 Nov 2018
Not so obvious
Not obviously stated or displayed Irish Times Simplex 26 Apr 2018
Bustle around, it's implied The Sun Two Speed 19 Mar 2018
Artful The Sun Two Speed 19 Mar 2018
Faint Wall Street Journal 10 Jan 2018
Not obvious
Understated Newsday 29 Nov 2017
Nuanced Wall Street Journal 05 Aug 2017
Nice bust remodelled on French article The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Jul 2017
Nuanced Eugene Sheffer 12 Jul 2017
Nice caption, but cross it out!
Fine, let us be short-tempered
Not obvious, understated Irish Times Simplex 14 Jan 2017
Understated caption, it is out of place
Mild tumult after third and first places switched The Telegraph Toughie 14 Oct 2016
Understated USA Today 11 Apr 2016
Capable of making fine distinctions The Times Concise 11 Dec 2015
Far from obvious New York Times 26 Oct 2015
Tenuous The Telegraph Quick 25 Sep 2015
Far from obvious
Removing it from caption makes it understated
Animation coming with first-half upset not immediately obvious?
Upset but extremely ladylike after son's slight
Easy to overlook
Understated
Far from obvious
Easy to overlook
Delicately suggestive
Understated
Understated
Understated
Not blatant
Insidious
Understated
Understated
Insidious
Nuanced
Faint
Hard to get
Not so easy to dig?
Crafty
Like some hints
Nuanced
Understated
Not blatant
Between-the-lines
Difficult to understand
Arcane
Rarefied
Nonobvious
With 74 Across, devious skill in politics?
Tricky; elusive
Devious
Crafty
Shrewd.
Discerning.
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