"Surely a clever thief could have stolen the jewels without running his head into a noose."

When police stations were looted, the clever thieves went for the files.

A clever thief would have no difficulty with a thing like that.

On top of that, he was the cleverest thief.

And he is a clever thief, a master thief.

I deal with clever thieves all the time.

The clever thief had a profound distrust of things that came about by sheer chance.

A clever thief, stealing the document, would substitute a similar envelope stuffed with blank paper.

Plenty of people say he's a clever little thief.

"You always said you were the cleverest thief of all Chrosanthe."