#crafty

• Astute — Demonstrating mental agility oriented toward achieving goals through indirect methods; shrewd, cunning, crafty, clever, resourceful, or full of hidden tactics. In a literary sense, it describes a person, action, or stratagem characterized by speculative intelligence, capacity for dissimulation, and a keen sense of observation, used to deceive or gain an advantage in a complex situation.
• Astute — Demonstrating or containing astuție; shrewd, cunning, crafty, full of mental agility and strategic spirit. In a literary sense, the term qualifies a person capable of finding ingenious and indirect solutions, or a behavior or well-structured plan meant to deceive or solve a complex problem through subtlety.