Answer: SHARP
SHARP is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 90 times.
Referring Clues:
- High-pitched
 - Astute
 - Sudden
 - On the dot
 - Tacky?
 - Quick
 - Dashing
 - Quick-witted
 - Like a tack
 - Like some curves
 - Knifelike
 - With it
 - Like some cheddar
 - Soprano instrument is too high (5)
 - Opposite of mild, in cheeses
 - Brainy
 - Mentally acute
 - Keen-edged
 - On the ball or on the dot
 - Pointed
 - Like some cheddars
 - Like a scalpel
 - Like some cheese
 - Kind of dresser
 - Like pungent cheese
 - On the ball
 - A little high
 - Acute
 - Staff symbol
 - __ as a tack
 - Like a useful knife
 - Pointy
 - Cheddar type
 - Precipitous
 - In perfect focus
 - Like some wits or cheeses
 - Note notation
 - Like a good knife
 - Off-key, in a way
 - #, on scores
 - Clever
 - Quick-thinking
 - ___ as a tack
 - Sleeping car inventor
 - The key of G has one
 - Not rounded
 - Like honed knives
 - Cutting
 - Well-honed
 - Good for cutting
 - Keen
 - Like a razor
 - Opposite of flat, musically
 - A little too high
 - Like aged cheddar
 - Like the cutting edge
 - Piercing
 - Like a knife's edge
 - Distinct
 - Exactly
 - On the button
 - See 34-Across
 - Musical symbol
 - Nobody's fool
 - Perceptive
 - Biting
 - Off-key, perhaps
 - Not fuzzy
 - Astute or acute
 - Like provolone piccante
 - #, in music
 - Like a honed knife
 - Note with a #
 - Piercing or pungent
 - Not dull
 - Tuned too high
 - *Pointed ... and the end of the word ladder
 - Pointed, as a comment
 - Pitch-raising notation
 - Spiffy
 - Musical sign
 - With 6-Down, acute power of discernment
 - Quick on the uptake
 - Opposite of blunt
 - #
 - Pointed, say
 - Like well-aged cheddar
 - Razor-___
 - #, on a music score
 - Like good knives and pupils
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - March 31, 2025
 - LA Times - September 30, 2024
 - USA Today - May 30, 2024
 - USA Today - July 12, 2023
 - USA Today - July 03, 2023
 - New York Times - January 30, 2023
 - New York Times - November 30, 2022
 - LA Times - April 11, 2022
 - USA Today - February 09, 2022
 - New York Times - July 19, 2021
 - LA Times - November 28, 2020
 - New York Times - October 11, 2020
 - LA Times - October 10, 2020
 - USA Today - September 30, 2020
 - Netword - August 07, 2020
 - USA Today - July 01, 2020
 - Universal - April 29, 2020
 - New York Times - April 10, 2020
 - New York Times - February 08, 2020
 - Netword - February 01, 2020
 
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