Crossword-Solution: GUMSHOE
We have 37 clues for the answer “GUMSHOE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Slueth, informally | 1 answer |
| Sam Spade, e.g., slangily | 1 answer |
| Relative of a dick. | 1 answer |
| Protagonist in hard-boiled fiction | 1 answer |
| One who might find Carmen Sandiego | 1 answer |
| One who may be on your case | 1 answer |
| Mike Hammer, for example, in slang | 1 answer |
| Lead follower, informally | 1 answer |
| Follower of a cold case, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Expert tailer | 1 answer |
| American detective (informal) | 1 answer |
| Sleuth, informally | 2 answers |
| Sleuth, in slang | 2 answers |
| Sleuth: Slang. | 3 answers |
| Detective: Slang. | 4 answers |
| Sneaker | 4 answers |
| Detective, slangily | 5 answers |
| Shamus | 7 answers |
| BE A PRIVATE EYE | 10 answers |
| Case worker? | 10 answers |
| Private eye | 10 answers |
| hawkshaw | 13 answers |
| Sherlock | 14 answers |
| lurk | 14 answers |
| tec | 16 answers |
| Peeler | 17 answers |
| flatfoot | 17 answers |
| Sleuth | 25 answers |
| Dick ___ | 26 answers |
| Fuzz | 27 answers |
| Policeman. | 27 answers |
| COP ___ | 27 answers |
| Creep | 31 answers |
| Glide | 31 answers |
| Detective | 34 answers |
| Pussyfoot | 48 answers |
| Investigator | 50 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GUMSHOE (5)
There's a gumshoe man on his trail.” “All right” said the deputy, and hastened to his desk with the bundle of applications.
Why not? A glimpse, no more." "Is it the style where you come from," says I, "to gumshoe around and peek in the windows to see old friends?" "In my country," says he, "men do not--but then we have our own customs.
And you're out for basketball too? How did you come out in Math and Mech? And who's taken Gumshoe's place this year? And you never wrote me a word about Class President Election, though I guess I've asked you in every letter.
But here, in our new house, our butler, William, always'd gumshoe in and say it so low you couldn't hardly hear him: "Dinner is served, Miss Wright." But, as them kids was a little late in coming, Old Man Kimberly finds time to take another nip.
She's her own mistress now and if she wants to go away by herself, it's no one's concern but hers." "I can't imagine you in the role of a gumshoe!" The other laughed outright, and it was Winnie's turn to gape in amazement.
Quotes with GUMSHOE (1)
William Burroughs was simultaneously old and young. Part sheriff, part gumshoe. All writer. He had a medicine chest he kept locked, but if you were in pain he would open it. He did not like to see his loved ones suffer. If you were infirm he would feed you. He’d appear at your door with a fish wrapped in newsprint and fry it up. He was inaccessible to a girl but I loved him anyway.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1960–2023).