Crossword-Solution: PLAINCLOTHESMEN
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Undercover police officers | 1 answer |
| Commissioner Murphy recently returned them to uniform. | 1 answer |
| Investigators of a kind. | 1 answer |
| Undercover detectives | 1 answer |
| Detectives | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZCMAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PLAINCLOTHESMEN (5)
There were two or three policemen in the shop and several plainclothesmen, some armed with formidable looking sawed-off shot guns.
Hadn't Captain Strawn taunted him not too good-naturedly about his ability to get along without the younger man's help? But he was glad, both selfishly and unselfishly, when, half an hour later, he threw open the front door of dead Nita's house to the chief of the Homicide Squad, Carraway, the fingerprint expert, and the two plainclothesmen who had searched the top floor for the missing weapon or the murderer himself soon after the murder had been committed.
The two plainclothesmen whom Strawn had detailed to guard the house and to continue the search for the missing gun and silencer looked on with unconcealed amusement as Dundee tapped walls, floors and ceilings in a house that seemed to be exceptionally free of architectural eccentricities.
Plainclothesmen, in pairs, day and night shifts, still guarded the lonely house in Primrose Meadows, but Dundee had taken no interest in the actual scene of the crime since Carraway, fingerprint expert, had reported negatively upon the secret shelf between Nita's bedroom closet and the guest closet.
The guard had been withdrawn, probably to join the small army of plainclothesmen and patrolmen who had been foolishly and futilely searching for the New York gunman--the keystone of Captain Strawn's exploded theory.
Quotes with PLAINCLOTHESMEN (1)
An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police were pursuing a fugitive from justice who ran into the public library. Uniformed police surrounded the building, and the library director was notified that only unobtrusive plainclothesmen were entering the building. Their instructions: “When you find him, overpower him. Quietly.” It was done, and only a few people in the crowded building saw a handcuffed man …
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Appears in: Crossroads, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1950–2005).