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Crossword-Solution: SLEUTH 6 letters, 85 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Sleuth n. The track of man or beast as followed by the scent.

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SLEUTH anagram HUSTLE, THULES

We have 85 clues for the answer “SLEUTH”

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Movie with Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier 1 answer
Oliver-Caine film 1 answer
Nero or Hercule. 1 answer
Nero or Ellery 1 answer
Nero Wolfe, e.g. 1 answer
Nancy Drew, for one 1 answer
Nancy Drew, e.g. 1 answer
Nancy Drew or Harriet the Spy 1 answer
Mystery person? 1 answer
Mystery hero 1 answer
Mr. Moto, e.g. 1 answer
Olivier-Caine film 1 answer
Miss Marple, e.g. 1 answer
Magnum or Spade 1 answer
Magnifying glass carrier, stereotypically 1 answer
Magnifying glass carrier, maybe 1 answer
Magnifying glass carrier 1 answer
Holmes, e.g. 1 answer
Holmes or Poirot 1 answer
Holmes or Colombo, e.g. 1 answer
Hercule Poirot, for example. 1 answer
Poirot or Holmes 1 answer
Investigator on a case 1 answer
Wolfe, for one 1 answer
Wimsey, for one 1 answer
Tony-winning play set at Andrew Wyke's country home 1 answer
TV's Mannix or Monk, e.g. 1 answer
Sherlock Holmes, notably 1 answer
Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot 1 answer
Search around for clues 1 answer
Sam Spade or Philo Vance 1 answer
Pro on a case 1 answer
Encyclopedia Brown, e.g. 1 answer
Person working on a case-by-case basis 1 answer
One who works on a case-by-case basis [Zoe Wheeler] 1 answer
One on a trail, perhaps 1 answer
One may follow a lead 1 answer
Olivier/Caine mystery of 1972 1 answer
Olivier/Caine mystery of '73 1 answer
Olivier-Caine thriller 1 answer
Olivier-Caine movie: 1972 1 answer
Olivier-Caine film classic 1 answer
Easy Rawlins, for one 1 answer
Drew in books, e.g.? 1 answer
Crime investigator 1 answer
Columbo or Clouseau, e.g. 1 answer
Clue seeker 1 answer
Clue follower 1 answer
Clue collector 1 answer
Clue chaser 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble SLEUTH6-letter words that start with S6-letter words that end in H6-letter words containing LE6-letter words containing TH6-letter words with S and L

Sentences with SLEUTH (5)

Instead, he revolved this mystery in his mind: why do they find Smee lovable? He pursued the problem like the sleuth-hound that he was.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Hark to it! and these hounds are deep-voiced sleuth-dogs! But come now, there may yet be time." He turned, and caught up axe and shield from off the wall, and drew her toward a window that looked to the north, and peered out of it warily; but turned back straightway, and said: "Nay, it is too late that way, they are all round about the house.
Child Christopher William Morris 2008
Triumph shown again from the shrewd countenance of the sleuth: Laura must have slid the ledger along a wire into a hollow branch.
The Flirt Booth Tarkington 2004
Until I had killed or shook him off, I was quite divorced from my companions—alone, in the midst of England, on a frosty by-way leading whither I knew not, with a sleuth-hound at my heels, and never a friend but the holly-stick! We came at the same time to a crossing of lanes.
St. Ives Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
Patience to lie in wait, cunning to follow the sleuth, Abroad the foes I have fought, and at home the friends of my youth.” “Love, love, beloved Rua, love has a clearer eye, Hence from the arms of love you go not forth to die.
Ballads Robert Louis Stevenson 2013

Quotes with SLEUTH (3)

I do not write every day. I write to the questions and issues before me. I write to deadlines. I write out of my passions. And I write to make peace with my own contradictory nature. For me, writing is a spiritual practice. A small bowl of water sits on my desk, a reminder that even if nothing is happening on the page, something is happening in the room--evaporation. And I always light a candle when I begin to write, a reminder that I have now entered another realm, call it t…
Terry Tempest Williams
Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.
Philip Zaleski The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -- not too strenuous, not too sedentary; trains and invigorates the mind.
Dorothy L. Sayers Unnatural Death
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 79 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).