Clever
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: mentally sharp or bright, witty; possessing quick or able intelligence nimble with hands or body superficially skillful, resourceful showing inventiveness or originality (Australian Aboriginal) possessing magical abilities
Example sentence: The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
Ingenious
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.
Example sentence: Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.