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"clever" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often ingenious (9 letters).
Definitions
showing inventiveness and skill
Word origin
From East Anglian dialectal English cliver (“expert at seizing”), from Middle English cliver (“tenacious”).
Used in a sentence
“My dad is quite clever with his hands, especially at carpentry.”
“a. 1898, Francis James Child (collator), Child's Ballads, 198: "Bonny John Seton", The Highland men, they're clever men At handling sword and shield,”
“clever like a fox”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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