Related Clues:

• Comparatively crafty
• Not as forthright
• Better with deception
• Comparatively surreptitious
• Harder to outwit
• More calculating or crafty
• Better at conniving
• Having abandoned love, words here failing to be more perceptive
• After losing key, killer becomes more cunning
• Scold duke and king as more crafty
• Less up-front
• More knavish
• Second liar, we're told, is even more cunning
• One kills without answer, being more cunning
• Socialist rising against little beast is more astute