Detective Crossword Clue

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Detective Crossword Answer

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PRIVATEEYE

(10 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. watch, observe, or inquire secretly
(noun)
1. a detective who follows a trail

Hint 2: Clue Definition

DETECTIVE (noun)
1. a police officer who investigates crimes
2. an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

PRIVATEEYE
(10 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
HUSTLE

More New Yorker Crossword (4/28/2026) Answers

Across

1. Presidential subject of the “Hamilton” song “I Know Him”

6. Not meant to be taken metaphorically

13. Old-fashioned copy machine, for short

14. “Did the meeting already start?”

15. Immigrants who hope to find refuge from persecution

17. Natl. economic stats

18. Actress Seehorn or Perlman

19. “___ Beso” (Paul Anka song with a rhyming title)

21. Congressional approval

22. Gourd whose shape resembles a certain nut

26. “The King and I” Tony winner ___ Ann Miles

28. Sections that may lead into the next track

29. Trashy TV star?

30. Mentally manipulated, in a way

33. Waterway known by the Mohicans as Mahicannituc

36. Yellow Teletubby

37. Wear a cape, for example?

43. Married M.L.B. mascot with a giant baseball head

44. Fusion genre for Mahalia Jackson and Blind Willie Johnson

48. Small battery size

49. Zenith

50. ___-weeny

51. Common conjunctions

52. Product-origin label represented by this puzzle’s circled letters

57. Causes to transform into the Incredible Hulk, say

58. Cyclist or jockey

59. Actor’s flat fee

60. Jerk

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Down

1. Best Picture winner told from the perspective of Antonio Salieri

2. Deploy

3. Vegetarian freezer-aisle brand

4. Voice-acting legend Blanc

5. “Got any proof?,” on social media

6. Focussed beam

7. Well

8. Impossible Super Bowl result

9. Bugler, at times

10. Call Me Maybe singer Carly ___ Jepsen

11. In the back, in a photo caption

12. Not quite as much

16. Unit whose symbol is an upside-down omega

17. Halal cart offering

20. Sounds of surprise

22. September 29, 2013, for the “Breaking Bad” series finale

23. Numbers for one

24. Archers’ cases

25. Says

27. Recover from the ocean floor

30. Announcer’s cry on ESPN Deportes

31. De Armas of "Blade Runner 2049"

32. Title for una esposa: Abbr.

34. Political comedian Mort

35. Love movies

38. Quarterback’s woe

39. G.P.S. guesses

40. Capt.’s subordinate

41. Towered (over)

42. Iberian nation, to natives

43. Seth of late-night TV

45. “John Brown’s Body” poet Stephen Vincent ___

46. Renter's contract

47. Sch. in Albuquerque

51. 2000 Broadway début based on an opera

53. Like crunchy leaves

54. Place to rest a pencil, perhaps

55. Tennis star Świątek with six major titles

56. Extract digital content from

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