Crossword-Solution: FLIC 4 letters, 30 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

With a soft _flic-flac_ the great night-moths were flying round the wire-gauze cover, alighting, taking flight, returning, mounting to the ceiling, re-descending.

The Tommy-Noiseless automatics in the hands of Bey and Elmer Allen gave their silenced _flic flic flic_ sounds, equally ineffective.

The graceful animals took off at a prohibitive rifle range, as usual, but Abrahim el Bakr had thrown his small, all but tiny weapon to his shoulder and _flic flic flic_, with a sound no greater than the cracking of a ground nut, had knocked over three of them before the others had disappeared around a dune.

Bey's light automatic _flic flic flicked_ its excitement and dust and dirt enveloped the wall facing Crawford.

And eventually the functionary distinctly heard himself apostrophized as a “sneaking ‘flic’,” a “dirty peeler.” At that he laid his hand on Kreisler’s collar, and threw him in the direction of the police-station.