| Police informer (5,6) | 
            Mirror Classic | 
            26 Sep 2025 | 
          
          
            | Polite goons roughed up police informer (5,6) | 
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            | Implement bird on section with grass (5-6) | 
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            | He may turn on a friend | 
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            | Is the decoy a sitting bird? (5,6) | 
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            | Dummy bird used as a decoy (5,6) | 
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            | Informant, betrayer (5,6) | 
            Puzzler | 
            30 Sep 2024 | 
          
          
            | Police informant | 
            Newsday | 
            21 Feb 2024 | 
          
          
            | Canary, relative of 8 down? | 
            The Guardian Cryptic | 
            18 Jan 2024 | 
          
          
            | Canary, relative of 8 down? (5,6) | 
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            | Person acting as a decoy | 
            USA Today | 
            10 Sep 2023 | 
          
          
            | Police informant | 
            Newsday | 
            16 Aug 2023 | 
          
          
            | *Informer | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            06 Sep 2022 | 
          
          
            | Blabbing informant | 
            New York Times | 
            09 Jun 2021 | 
          
          
            | Police informer | 
            Newsday | 
            16 Dec 2020 | 
          
          
            | Police informant | 
            Newsday | 
            08 Oct 2019 | 
          
          
            | Informer | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            26 Jul 2018 | 
          
          
            | Informer | 
            The Washington Post | 
            26 Jul 2018 | 
          
          
            | Informer on the mob | 
            USA Today | 
            07 Jun 2018 | 
          
          
            | *One who rats to the cops | 
            The Washington Post | 
            07 May 2018 | 
          
          
            | *One who rats to the cops | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            07 May 2018 | 
          
          
            | Informer on the mob | 
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            | *One who rats to the cops | 
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            | Informer | 
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            | Whodunit informer | 
            Newsday | 
            22 Jan 2017 | 
          
          
            | Snitch in a police station | 
            Universal | 
            05 Jan 2017 | 
          
          
            | Snitch in a police station | 
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            | Snitch | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            23 May 2016 | 
          
          
            | Police informant | 
            Universal | 
            01 Oct 2015 | 
          
          
            | E.g. topsoil spread over grass | 
            The Times Cryptic | 
            23 Jul 2015 | 
          
          
            | F | 
            New York Times | 
            02 Jul 2015 | 
          
          
            | Police informer | 
            Universal | 
            06 Feb 2015 | 
          
          
            | Police informant | 
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            | Police informer | 
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            | F | 
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            | Police snitch | 
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            | Informant | 
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            | Snitch | 
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            | Informant, informally | 
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            | Mob's bane | 
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            | Police informant | 
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            | Police informer | 
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            | Snitch | 
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            | Police informant | 
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            | Rat | 
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            | Talker looking for a deal, often | 
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            | Police informant | 
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            | Snitch | 
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            | Rat | 
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            | Packed item that might fly away? | 
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            | Informer | 
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            | Tattler | 
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            | Informer | 
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            | Informer, informally | 
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            | Snitcher | 
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            | Informer | 
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            | S&P stock for finks? | 
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            | Detective's tipster | 
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            | Decoy | 
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            | Mob's bane | 
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            | Informer | 
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            | Mob's bane | 
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            | Informer | 
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            | Police snitch | 
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            | Bird in a bar? | 
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            | Sucker at the bar? | 
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            | Police informer | 
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            | Rat | 
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            | Police informant | 
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            | Dupe at the bar? | 
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            | Birdman of Alcatraz | 
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            | Unpopular bird | 
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            | Squealer. | 
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            | Decoy. | 
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            | Nark. | 
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