- - Spade, e.g., briefly
- - Noir stock character, briefly
- - Magnum, e.g., briefly
- - Dick Tracy is one, briefly
- - Clue seeker, briefly
- - Whodunit solver, briefly
- - Old-time gumshoe
- - Pulp fiction gumshoe
- - Gumshoe, for short
- - Gumshoe, briefly
- - Investigator, briefly
- - Gumshoe or shamus
- - Sleuth, briefly
- - Private eye, briefly
- - Gumshoe, slangily
- - Gumshoe
- - investigator [inf]
- - If you want to prosecute criminals, he'll help
- - Film noir investigator
- - Sleuth can offer a bit of protection
- - ......pro, a type of barrier
- - many a noir hero
- - Private investigator, informally
- - A sleuth or private eye, for short
- - Crime investigator (abbr.)
- - Private eye, in old lingo
- - Private eye, quaintly
- - Private investigator or plain clothes police officer [abbr]
- - Plainclothes police officer or private investigator [abbrev]
- - Detective, informally
- - Spade or Hammer
- - Soho sleuth
- - Case guy
- - Spade, e.g., slangily
- - Sam Spade, for one
- - Queen, e.g., for short
- - Plainclothesman, for short
- - Pinkerton, e.g.
- - Person with a magnifying glass, for short?
- - Operative, for short
- - L.A.P.D. member
- - Investigator for short
- - He's a dick
- - Hammer or Spade, e.g.
- - Flatfoot's relative
- - Case studier, slangily
- - ......-9 (semi-automatic weapon)
- - Noir sleuth
- - Sleuth, slangily
- - TV's Jim Rockford, for one
- - Investigator, informally
- - P.I., in old slang
- - Sam Spade, e.g., informally
- - Noir investigator, slangily
- - Noir hero
- - Sleuth
- - PI kin
- - Private eye, etc
- - Solver with a set of clues, for short
- - PI or sleuth
- - P.I. kin
- - Sleuth, for short
- - Chandler/Hammett hero
- - Private eye, informally
- - Old-time investigator
- - Sleuth kin
- - Private eye, slangily
- - Hero of hard-boiled fiction
- - Investigator, in old film noir
- - Sam Spade type
- - One who might document assignations, informally
- - P.I., slangily
- - Private eye, in old slang
- - Snooping pro
- - Sleuth's cohort
- - Adulterer follower, in slang
- - Frequent film noir protagonist
- - Clue hunter, informally
- - Investigator's hours out of college
- - Sleuth, in potboilers
- - PI
- - D.Tracy, for one
- - Sam Spade, e.g
- - Sleuth in pulp fiction
- - M.Hammer or S.Holmes
- - Columbo, for one
- - P.I., e.g
- - Sleuth (Sl.)
- - Private Eye shortly gets half of 27 down
- - Investigator doesn't finish college
- - Columbo, famously (Abbr.)
- - Investigator regularly observed in the act
- - Clue analyzer, in slang
- - Sleuth, in old crime fiction
- - Classic Bogart role, in slang
- - 20-Across, e.g., informally
- - Philip Marlowe type, informally
- - Clue collector, slangily
- - Sam Spade, e.g., for short
- - Private investigator, in old slang
- - Caper investigator
- - Caper film narrator, often
- - Noir protagonist
- - Investigator, slangily
- - Sleuth, to Sayers
- - Private eye, for short
- - Criminal investigator, for short
- - Private investigator, in slang
- - He works on a case-by-case basis
- - Slangy sleuth
- - Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, e.g.
- - Common pulp protagonist
- - Short investigator?
- - Dick Tracy, e.g.
- - Spade, e.g., for short
- - Hammett's Spade, e.g.
- - Private dick
- - Pulp protagonist, perhaps
- - V.I. Warshawski, e.g.
- - Operator: Abbr.
- - P.I
- - Lt. Columbo, e.g.
- - Sherlock.
- - Hawkshaw.
- - Private eye
- - Shamus
- - Sleuth, in slang
- - Detective, slangily
- - Sleuth, informally
- - Dick
- - Film noir stock character
- - G-man
- - Detective
- - Investigator
- - Not the complete sleuth
- - Sleuth, in old slang
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