Suspect Crossword Clue

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Suspect Crossword Answer

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FISHY

(5 letters)

PERP

(4 letters)

FISHY

(5 letters)

SENSE

(5 letters)

Helpful Hints

(adjective)
1. not as expected
2. filled with shade

Hint 2: Clue Definition

SUSPECT (verb)
1. imagine to be the case or true or probable
2. regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
SUSPECT (noun)
1. a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused
2. someone who is under suspicion
SUSPECT (adjective)
1. not as expected

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

Fishy
(5 letters)
PERP
(4 letters)
FISHY
(5 letters)
SENSE
(5 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More Boston Globe Mini Crossword (9/19/2026) Answers

Across

1. Crispy topping for a baked potato

10. Deg. requiring a defense

13. How the weekend often seems to end

15. Mauna ___

16. Artist who creates puff pieces?

18. Miscalculate, maybe

19. Maple fluid

20. "Yeah, right"

21. Formal meal

23. Supporter

24. Mentors, as a 10-Across student

25. "Come stay ___!"

28. Moving companies?

30. Event site

31. “Over here!”

33. Cover with asphalt

34. Plea to a handyman

35. Single

36. Fr. holy woman

37. Greece's largest island

38. Model airplane wood

39. These are nuts!

41. Crystal-lined rocks

42. IPads and Fires

43. ___ serif (font like Century Gothic)

44. Checked out from a library, say

45. Coin with an oak branch on its reverse

46. Gobbled up or chowed down

49. Coastal inlet

50. Song like "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

53. Music holders that might be burned, for short

54. Just relax

55. Scorching

56. "Wow, that's so helpful ..."

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Down

1. Bases, in baseball lingo

2. Penne ___ vodka

3. Join hands?

4. Extra playing periods, for short

5. "Of course it isn't, you goofball!"

6. Move up and down, as a figurine's head

7. R&B's ___ Brothers

8. Train whistle sound

9. "You reap what you ___"

10. Request to stay on the line

11. Savvy

12. Board game?

14. Yap about crosswords, say

17. Sketch-and-song show

22. One of 21 on a standard six-sided die

23. Helper

24. Golfer Palmer with a namesake beverage, to fans

25. Egyptian serpents

26. Question from someone who wants to help

27. Really enjoy yourself

28. Messages that might contain emoji

30. Watches

32. Passing remarks?

34. Don't you worry

35. Asian country whose capital is Vientiane

37. What talk is, in a saying

38. Inferior to

40. ___-mo instant replay

41. Netflix's "The Queen's ___"

42. Object in the Statue of Liberty's right hand

43. Yes ___ Bob!

45. Ice hockey feint

46. Mystery author Bradley

47. Piece of work, literally

48. Dreyer's, on the East Coast

51. Humorous fellow

52. Meadowland

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