Word "TRICKY" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
having concealed difficulty
Synonyms:
catchy
Examples:
a tricky recipe to follow

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
not to be trusted
Synonyms:
slippery

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
marked by skill in deception
Synonyms:
crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, wily
Examples:
tricky Dick

Crossword Clues for TRICKY

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Clue Source Date
Head off Mick in attempt to be awkward (6)
Clever as a solo player? (6)
Cards won by Yankee displaying cunning The Times Quick Cryptic 23 Mar 2024
Not simple The Guardian Quick 14 Mar 2024
Difficult, intricate (6)
Difficult set of cards taken by Yankee (6)
Difficult, awkward Mirror Tea Time 03 Feb 2024
Unpredictable Newsday 27 Jan 2024
Quite difficult (6)
Bianca's man after time becomes devious
Hard to get right
Requiring careful handling
Crafty illusion yet to start (6)
Difficult set of cards followed by unknown character (6)
Difficult to be sly Mirror Cryptic 03 Dec 2023
Problematic Mirror Quick 03 Dec 2023
Problematic The Telegraph Quick 12 Mar 2023
Heading off unwell during test is crafty The Guardian Quiptic 12 Sep 2022
Heading off unwell during test is crafty
Difficult to do The Telegraph Quick 12 Sep 2022
Awkward; deceitful The Times Concise 03 Sep 2022
Sensitive — difficult The Guardian Quick 24 May 2022
Difficult feature of card game ending in controversy The Guardian Quiptic 25 Apr 2022
Difficult feature of card game ending in controversy
Awkward The Guardian Speedy 10 Apr 2022
Could bridge be called this complicated? The Guardian Cryptic 31 Jan 2022
Could bridge be called this complicated?
Problematic The Telegraph Quick 07 Aug 2021
Deceitful, crafty The Times Concise 25 Mar 2021
Difficult The Telegraph Quick 09 Feb 2021
Difficult test involves detective losing diamonds The Telegraph Toughie 03 Feb 2021
Regularly turn nasty and difficult
Is a card game so complicated? The Sun Two Speed 04 Nov 2020
Difficult The Sun Two Speed 04 Nov 2020
With 21-, 30-, 49-, 61- and 74-Across, end of a Carrie Bradshaw quote that starts 'Men in their 40s are like the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle ...' New York Times 28 Oct 2020
Devious Eugene Sheffer 29 Aug 2020
Translation's distasteful and difficult to understand
Difficult; sly The Telegraph Quick 27 Mar 2020
Guileful Thomas Joseph 13 Feb 2020
Deceptive LA Times Daily 12 Sep 2019
Deceptive The Washington Post 12 Sep 2019
Crafty; difficult The Telegraph Quick 03 Jul 2019
Deceptive
Tense little boy is difficult to handle
Putting pile of hay into empty river is awkward The Sun Two Speed 14 Jan 2018
'Massive' British trip hop artist being difficult …
Little Richard loses head in attempt that's artful Irish Times Crosaire 21 Jun 2017
Difficult finding starters served in toilet roll, and disgusting!
Problematic The Telegraph Quick 05 Feb 2017
Awkward time with Richard
Devious Wall Street Journal 16 Sep 2016
Requiring delicate handling LA Times Daily 18 Apr 2015
Devious The Chronicle of Higher Education 10 Apr 2015
Deceptive Jonesin 15 Jan 2015
Requiring delicate handling
Devious
Little boy, after short time, becomes difficult
Having a catch
Tough to figure out
Unpredictable
Devious
Devious
Hard to unravel
Deceptive
Complicated
Word spelled phonetically by the starts of 1-, 20-, 27-, 36-, 49- and 56-Across
Unpredictable
Tough to figure out
Deceptive
Tough to figure out
Deceptive
___ Dick (Nixon nickname)
Sly
Sly
Ingenious or sly
Deceptive.
Unreliable.
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