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Answer for the clue "Mischievous use of the Hispanic angle ", 6 letters:
elfish

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Word definitions for elfish in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks" [syn: elfin , elvish ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, alvisc ; see elf + -ish . Compare elvish . Related: Elfishly ; elfishness .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Characteristic of an elf 2 mischievous

Usage examples of elfish.

It was easy to imagine that this desolate region, not frequented by mankind, was the playground of unbenign spirits, and he fancied, as the Pacha had done, that elfish beings scoffed among the pines upon the plain.

Jock Binning, crutched and with an elfish face and figure and voice, had pulled down upon himself the office of revelator.

And he'd bring odd assorted boards and whatnot, and impossible bookshelves, all kinds of things, and years later I had further Three Stooges adventures with him going out to his house in Contra Costa (which he owned and rented) and spending impossible-to-believe afternoons when he paid me two dollars an hour for hauling out bucket after bucket of mudslime which he himself was doling out of a flooded cellar by hand, black and mud-covered as Tartarilouak the King of the Mudslimes of Paratioalaouakak Span, with a secret grin of elfish delight on his face.