| Investigator (inf) (3) |
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| Sleuth, for short |
Commuter |
25 Mar 2024 |
| Gumshoe or investigator |
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| Sleuth, in slang |
Premier Sunday |
17 Mar 2024 |
| Investigator, in short (3) |
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| Not the complete sleuth (3) |
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| Private eye (inf) (3) |
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| Not the complete CID man (3) |
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| PI, for short |
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| Detective, briefly |
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| Caper film narrator, often |
Newsday |
09 Dec 2023 |
| Hercule Poirot, e.g., for short |
New York Times |
06 Dec 2023 |
| Sleuth, in old slang |
Premier Sunday |
22 Oct 2023 |
| Gumshoe |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Oct 2023 |
| Investigator, informally |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Jul 2023 |
| Gumshoe |
LA Times Daily |
06 Jul 2023 |
| Noir sleuth |
LA Times Daily |
25 Mar 2023 |
| Sleuth |
Eugene Sheffer |
30 Dec 2022 |
| Private eye |
LA Times Daily |
23 Oct 2022 |
| Film noir investigator |
Newsday |
14 Aug 2022 |
| Gumshoe |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Jul 2022 |
| Sleuth, slangily |
Premier Sunday |
10 Jul 2022 |
| Gumshoe or PI |
Family Time |
12 Jun 2022 |
| Many a noir hero |
LA Times Daily |
30 Dec 2021 |
| Slangy sleuth |
Premier Sunday |
05 Dec 2021 |
| Gumshoe |
New York Times |
20 Nov 2021 |
| Gumshoe |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Sep 2021 |
| Private eye, quaintly |
New York Times |
09 Aug 2021 |
| Private eye, in old lingo |
New York Times |
03 Aug 2021 |
| Gumshoe |
Thomas Joseph |
19 Jul 2021 |
| Shamus |
The Washington Post |
30 May 2021 |
| Sleuth, in old slang |
Premier Sunday |
30 May 2021 |
| Shamus |
LA Times Daily |
30 May 2021 |
| Gumshoe |
Wall Street Journal |
06 May 2021 |
| Sleuth, slangily |
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| Noir sleuth |
LA Times Daily |
29 Aug 2020 |
| Noir sleuth |
The Washington Post |
29 Aug 2020 |
| Gumshoe |
The Washington Post |
26 Jul 2020 |
| Gumshoe |
LA Times Daily |
26 Jul 2020 |
| Shamus |
New York Times |
06 Jun 2020 |
| Gumshoe |
Family Time |
01 Jun 2020 |
| Sleuth, slangily |
Premier Sunday |
08 Dec 2019 |
| TV's Jim Rockford, for one |
The Washington Post |
24 Nov 2019 |
| TV's Jim Rockford, for one |
LA Times Daily |
24 Nov 2019 |
| Investigator, informally |
Jonesin |
22 Oct 2019 |
| P.I., in old slang |
The New Yorker |
29 Jul 2019 |
| Sam Spade, e.g., informally |
New York Times |
24 May 2019 |
| Sleuth, in slang |
New York Times |
20 May 2019 |
| Gumshoe |
Newsday |
07 Apr 2019 |
| Noir investigator, slangily |
Jonesin |
02 Apr 2019 |
| Noir hero |
The Washington Post |
21 Feb 2019 |
| Noir hero |
LA Times Daily |
21 Feb 2019 |
| Sleuth |
Eugene Sheffer |
04 Feb 2019 |
| Sam Spade, e.g., informally |
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| Sleuth, in slang |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Noir hero |
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| PI kin |
Universal |
15 Dec 2018 |
| Sleuth |
Universal |
05 Dec 2018 |
| Private eye, etc |
Universal |
28 Nov 2018 |
| Solver with a set of clues, for short |
New York Times |
16 Nov 2018 |
| PI or sleuth |
Universal |
01 Oct 2018 |
| P.I. kin |
Universal |
21 Sep 2018 |
| Sleuth, for short |
Newsday |
02 Sep 2018 |
| Chandler/Hammett hero |
Newsday |
25 Aug 2018 |
| Private eye, informally |
Jonesin |
14 Aug 2018 |
| Film noir stock character |
Newsday |
10 Aug 2018 |
| Private investigator, informally |
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| Old-time investigator |
Newsday |
29 Jun 2018 |
| Clue seeker, briefly |
Universal |
18 Jun 2018 |
| P.I |
Family Time |
03 Jun 2018 |
| Shamus |
Universal |
25 Apr 2018 |
| Sleuth kin |
Universal |
23 Apr 2018 |
| Private eye |
New York Times |
15 Apr 2018 |
| Private eye |
LA Times Daily |
15 Apr 2018 |
| Private eye, slangily |
Universal |
08 Apr 2018 |
| Hero of hard-boiled fiction |
Newsday |
01 Apr 2018 |
| Private eye |
Universal |
27 Mar 2018 |
| Investigator, in old film noir |
New York Times |
26 Mar 2018 |
| Sam Spade type |
LA Times Daily |
28 Jan 2018 |
| Sam Spade type |
The Washington Post |
28 Jan 2018 |
| P.I |
New York Times |
25 Jan 2018 |
| Investigator, in old film noir |
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| Sleuth |
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| Shamus |
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| PI or sleuth |
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| One who might document assignations, informally |
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| Private eye, slangily |
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| Private eye, etc. |
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| PI kin |
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| P.I. kin |
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| Clue seeker, briefly |
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| Shamus |
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| Sam Spade type |
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| Solver with a set of clues, for short |
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| Private eye |
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| Sleuth kin |
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| P.I., slangily |
Jonesin |
14 Nov 2017 |
| Private eye |
The Washington Post |
05 Nov 2017 |
| Private eye, in old slang |
New York Times |
18 Oct 2017 |
| Snooping pro |
Newsday |
16 Sep 2017 |
| Sleuth's cohort |
Universal |
08 Sep 2017 |
| A sleuth or private eye, for short |
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| Adulterer follower, in slang |
The Washington Post |
27 May 2017 |
| Adulterer follower, in slang |
LA Times Daily |
27 May 2017 |
| Frequent film noir protagonist |
Newsday |
03 Mar 2017 |
| Sleuth's cohort |
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| Private eye, in old slang |
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| Adulterer follower, in slang |
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| Clue hunter, informally |
Jonesin |
20 Dec 2016 |
| Investigator's hours out of college |
The Times Cryptic |
21 Nov 2016 |
| Sleuth, in potboilers |
Universal |
10 Aug 2016 |
| PI |
Universal |
07 Jul 2016 |
| Lt. Columbo, e.g |
Universal |
09 Mar 2016 |
| D.Tracy, for one |
Canadiana |
04 Jan 2016 |
| PI |
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| Sleuth, in potboilers |
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| Sleuth, slangily |
LA Times Daily |
27 Dec 2015 |
| Sleuth, for short |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Dec 2015 |
| Sam Spade, e.g |
LA Times Daily |
05 Dec 2015 |
| P.I |
Universal |
12 Nov 2015 |
| Sleuth in pulp fiction |
USA Today |
07 Oct 2015 |
| M.Hammer or S.Holmes |
Canadiana |
28 Sep 2015 |
| Columbo, for one |
Universal |
22 Aug 2015 |
| P.I., e.g |
USA Today |
18 Aug 2015 |
| P.I., e.g |
Universal |
29 Jun 2015 |
| Gumshoe |
USA Today |
24 Jun 2015 |
| Detective, slangily |
Canadiana |
22 Jun 2015 |
| Sleuth (Sl.) |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Jun 2015 |
| Private Eye shortly gets half of 27 down |
Irish Times Crosaire |
09 May 2015 |
| Busy, maybe going into rising inheritance tax. |
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| Investigator doesn't finish college |
The Telegraph Toughie |
17 Feb 2015 |
| Sleuth, in slang |
USA Today |
13 Feb 2015 |
| Columbo, famously (Abbr.) |
USA Today |
05 Feb 2015 |
| Investigator regularly observed in the act |
The Telegraph Toughie |
29 Jan 2015 |
| Sleuth, in slang |
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| P.I. |
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| Sam Spade, e.g. |
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| Columbo, for one |
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| Sleuth, slangily |
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| P.I., e.g. |
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| Whodunit solver, briefly |
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| Columbo, famously (Abbr.) |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Sleuth in pulp fiction |
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| P.I., e.g. |
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| Old-time gumshoe |
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| Classic Bogart role, in slang |
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| 20-Across, e.g., informally |
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| PI |
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| Private eye, slangily |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Philip Marlowe type, informally |
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| Sleuth |
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| Sleuth, in old crime fiction |
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| Investigator, informally |
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| Private eye |
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| Clue analyzer, in slang |
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| Private eye |
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| G-man |
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| Clue collector, slangily |
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| Private eye, for short |
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| Shamus |
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| Private eye, slangily |
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| Pulp fiction gumshoe |
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| Caper film narrator, often |
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| Gumshoe, for short |
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| Caper investigator |
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| Investigator, briefly |
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| Investigator, slangily |
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| Investigator, slangily |
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| Investigator, slangily |
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| Criminal investigator, for short |
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| P.I. |
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| Noir protagonist |
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| Sleuth, to Sayers |
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| Sleuth, slangily |
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| Sam Spade, e.g., for short |
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| Private investigator, in old slang |
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| Pulp fiction gumshoe |
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| Gumshoe, briefly |
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| P.I. |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Gumshoe or shamus |
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| Dick |
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| Noir hero |
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| Dick |
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| Sleuth, in slang |
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| Gumshoe, briefly |
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| Private eye, informally |
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| Private investigator, in slang |
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| He works on a case-by-case basis |
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| Slangy sleuth |
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| Common pulp protagonist |
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| He works on a case-by-case basis |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Sleuth, briefly |
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| Sleuth, in slang |
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| Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, e.g. |
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| Shamus |
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| Gumshoe, briefly |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Private eye |
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| Hammett's Spade, e.g. |
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| Shamus |
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| Sleuth, informally |
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| Sleuth, slangily |
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| Clue analyzer, in slang |
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| Sherlock |
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| Spade, e.g., for short |
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| Hammett's Spade, e.g. |
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| Short investigator? |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Private eye, briefly |
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| P.I. |
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| Dick Tracy, e.g. |
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| Sleuth, slangily |
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| Private eye |
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| Private eye, briefly |
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| Private eye, briefly |
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| Private dick |
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| Investigator, slangily |
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| Hawkshaw |
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| Sam Spade type |
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| Slangy sleuth |
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| Dick |
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| V.I. Warshawski, e.g. |
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| Private eye |
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| V.I. Warshawski, e.g. |
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| Gumshoe, slangily |
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| Dick Tracy is one, briefly |
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| Dick Tracy is one, briefly |
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| Sleuth, in slang |
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| Pulp protagonist, perhaps |
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| Magnum, e.g., briefly |
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| Shamus |
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| Spade, e.g., briefly |
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| Magnum, e.g., briefly |
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| Spade, e.g., briefly |
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| Spade, e.g., slangily |
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| Private eye, slangily |
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| Gumshoe, for short |
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| Spade, e.g., slangily |
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| Private eye, slangily |
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| Shamus |
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| P.I. |
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| P.I. |
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| Gumshoe |
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| P.I. |
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| Hammer or Spade, e.g. |
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| Person with a magnifying glass, for short? |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Hammer or Spade |
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| Sleuth, slangily |
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| Short investigator |
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| Sam Spade, for one |
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| Clue hunter, informally |
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| Gumshoe, for short |
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| Either half of 42 Across |
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| Dick Tracy, e.g. |
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| Hammer, e.g., briefly |
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| Private dick |
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| Hi-__: shoe brand |
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| Hi-__: shoe brand |
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| Hammer, e.g., briefly |
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| Spade or Hammer |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Clue hunter, informally |
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| Dick |
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| Investigator, slangily |
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| Investigator, briefly |
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| Shamus |
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| PI |
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| Pulp fiction gumshoe |
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| Case studier, slangily |
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| Investigator, briefly |
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| Sleuth |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Magnum, for one |
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| Magnum, for one |
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| Old-time gumshoe |
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| P.I. |
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| Sleuth, for short |
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| Sleuth, in potboilers |
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| Gumshoe, for short |
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| Pulp fiction sleuth |
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| Clue collector, slangily |
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| Private eye |
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| P.I., e.g. |
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| Sleuth, for short |
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| Dick |
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| Sherlock |
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| Pinkerton, e.g. |
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| Sleuth in pulp fiction |
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| Columbo, for one |
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| Eye |
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| P.I.^TE |
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| Dick |
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| Sleuth, informally |
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| PI |
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| Sleuth, informally |
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| PI |
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| Private eye, for short |
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| P.I. |
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| Short investigator |
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| Private eye |
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| Private eye |
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| Shamus |
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| Sleuth |
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| Operator: Abbr. |
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| Hawkshaw |
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| Investigator for short |
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| Shamus |
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| Mike Hammer, for one |
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| Soho sleuth |
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| Lt. Columbo, e.g. |
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| Old-time gumshoe |
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| Sam Spade, e.g. |
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| Spade or Hammer |
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| Gumshoe |
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| Shamus |
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| Sleuth |
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| L.A.P.D. member |
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| See 50 Down |
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| Hawkshaw |
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| Operative, for short |
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| Flatfoot's relative |
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| Soho sleuth |
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| Plainclothesman, for short |
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| Sleuth, for short. |
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| Private eye. |
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| Gumshoe. |
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| Operative: Slang. |
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| Hawkshaw. |
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| Sleuth. |
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| Dick. |
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| Clue man. |
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| Plain-clothes man: Slang. |
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| Gumshoe, for short. |
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| Sleuth: Slang. |
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| Sleuth: Sl. |
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| Army subrating: Abbr. |
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| Detective: Slang. |
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| Thief's enemy: Colloq. |
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| Dick |
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| ___-9 (semi-automatic weapon) |
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| He works on a case by case basis |
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| Case guy, for short |
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| Case guy |
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| He's a dick |
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| Queen, e.g., for short |
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| Shamus |
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