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Word | Clue |
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| 94% | 4 | NERO | Detective Wolfe |
| 31% | 5 | NEROS | Detective Wolfe and an emperor |
| 3% | 5 | WOLFE | Detective assisted by Archie Goodwin |
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| 3% | 7 | HAWKEYE | Aggressor and detective court witness? |
| 3% | 5 | OBESE | Like Nero Wolfe |
| 3% | 6 | SAYERS | English detective-story writer, d. 1957 |
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| 3% | 5 | AZTEC | An unknown detective finding Montezuma? |
| 3% | 3 | REX | Nero Wolfe creator Stout |
| 3% | 5 | DITTO | Detective exaggerated over the same thing |
| 3% | 4 | ROSA | "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" detective Diaz |
| 3% | 6 | STEELE | TV detective Remington |
| 3% | 11 | RADICALCHIC | Tom Wolfe coinage for frivolous activism |
| 3% | 8 | SHERLOCK | — Holmes, detective |
| 2% | 8 | LEWISHAM | Detective, hard on upset mum in London borough |
| 2% | 9 | DICTATION | Detective and prisoner accepting rubbish given by one delivering sentences? |
| 2% | 3 | CAM | __ Jansen: kid-lit detective with a photographic memory |
| 2% | 6 | PURPLE | Turned up literary detective (not the old woman) — such writing is over the top |
| 2% | 6 | LENNIE | Detective Briscoe on "Law and Order" |
| 2% | 14 | SHERLOCKHOLMES | Detective who inspired 'House, M.D.' |
| 2% | 5 | LEROY | First name of boy detective Encyclopedia Brown |