Clues for the word "RAT"
We've had 650 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1961 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on August 21, 2026.
Definition of rat
- n. - One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World.
- n. - A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.
- n. - One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.
- v. i. - In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.
- v. i. - To catch or kill rats.
Referring Clues
- Turn state's evidence
- Snitch
- Stinker
- Squeal
- Betray, with "on"
- Deserter
- Skunk
- No-goodnik
- Informer
- Cagney epithet
- Singer, of a sort
- Teller
- Lab runner
- One who blabs
- Back-stabber
- Pack animal?
- Hamelin critter
- Tattler
- Sing
- 48-Across's prey
- Maze runner
- Scoundrel
- Squealer
- Blackguard
- Nibbler
- Betrayer
- Dirty dog
- Slum sight
- See 41-Across
- One living in a dump
- Stoolie
- Hamelin pest
- Backstabber
- Fink
- Singer?
- Judas
- Unfaithful one
- Bewhiskered trash collector
- Despicable one
- Common test taker
- Pied Piper follower
- Long-tailed pest
- Squeal (on)
- Common test subject
- Blow the whistle (on)
- Lowlife snitch
- Turncoat
- Kind of race
- Snake in the grass
- Lab maze runner
- Untrustworthy sort
- Stool pigeon
- Double-crosser
- Unpopular singer?
- Hardly a good friend
- Chinese calendar animal
- Tell
- Disloyal sort
- Drainpipe discovery
- Runner of an experiment?
- Something often smelled
- Mouse's big cousin
- Unpopular singer
- "You dirty ___!"
- Lab maze solver
- One down in the dumps?
- Lab animal
- Slum scurrier
- Chinese calendar critter
- Animal eaten on "Survivor"
- Alley denizen
- Hamelin casualty
- Two-timer
- Michael Jackson's "Ben," for one
- Critter in a maze
- Proverbial ship deserter
- Word before or after pack
- Blow the whistle
- Templeton in "Charlotte's Web"
- Turn informer
- Chinese year icon
- Wharf pest
- Rodent for the Pied Piper
- Teller?
- Chinese calendar icon
- Mob turncoat
- Hamelin evictee
- Rizzo the Muppet, notably
- Cheese lover
- Gnawing pest
- Maze runner in a lab
- Dirty double-crosser
- Ship deserter, at times
- Inform on, with "out"
- Dirtbag
- Maze scurrier
- Mafioso informer
- Singer
- Rizzo the Muppet, for one
- Chinese zodiac animal before ox
- Subway scamperer
- Dumpster digger
- Lab test subject
- Equals
- Hamelin menace
- Chinese zodiac animal
- Hit singer, maybe?
- Inform (on)
- Oft-smelled rodent?
- Piper follower
- Treachery metaphor with a distinctive odor?
- Tell (on)
- Nasty "Pearls Before Swine" character
- Tattletale
- Hamelin vermin
- Traitor
- Ship deserter
- Treacherous one
- Cat's prey
- Lab-maze runner
- Muppet Rizzo, e.g.
- Untrustworthy one
- Snitch, slangily
- Experiment subject
- One who sings
- Be a squealer
- Tattle (on)
- Turn state's evidence, maybe
- One who squeals
- Pied Paper follower
- Beans spiller
- Singer behind prison walls?
- Ben in "Ben"
- Certain stowaway
- Music lover in Hamelin
- Vole relative
- Squeal on your sidekicks
- Word in a Cagney impersonation
- Word before or after "pack"
- Weasel's cousin?
- Pied Piper devotee
- Snitcher
- Long-tailed rodent
- He sings to the man
- Bean-spiller
- Gnawing problem?
- Start of a drum sound
- "The Wind in the Willows" critter
- Word before or after "pack"
- Type of race
- Maze traveler
- Plague carrier
- It may be down in the dumps
- Spill the beans
- Jailhouse singer?
- ___ Pack (Sinatra and pals)
- Urban vermin
- Chinese calendar animal ... or the key to this puzzle's theme
- ___ Pack (Sinatra and crew)
- Subway station critter
- Tattle
- Not a good confidant
- Unpopular mobster
- Mob hit victim, often
- ___ race
- Kangaroo ___
- Bewhiskered trash invader
- One who breaks the 16-Across
- "The Tale of the Giant ___ of Sumatra" (Firesign Theatre album)
- It's smelled when something's fishy
- Dock denizen
- Singing mobster?
- Unfaithful person
- Urban pest
- ___ Pack (Sinatra & pals)
- Hit man's target
- Mouse cousin
- Animal that frequently hides on ships
- One in a maze
- Mouse kin
- Unwelcome rodent
- Rodent with a long tail
- ___ race
- "Wind in the Willows" character
- Squealer - or squeaker
- Weasel's prey
- "Was it a ___?" "Yeah, a great big one" (line from "L.A. Confidential")
- Swine
- One cheating on another, e.g.
- One who tells
- Start of the Chinese zodiac
- Persona non grata among mafiosi
- Tell on
- Smell a ______
- Scenery chewers
- Dock rodent
- Subway varmint
- Mob target
- Subject of many lab tests
- Sewer rodent
- Word in a Cagney misquote
- Rodent pest
- With 86 Down, a gun sound
- Health inspector's red flag
- Informant
- Unwanted Hamelin resident
- Unfaithful rodent?
- Ox preceder in the Chinese calendar
- "King ___" (James Clavell novel)
- Lab denizen
- Lab denizen
- Mouse's cousin
- Lab critter
- Nogoodnik
- Sewer dweller
- Nogood-nik
- Unsavory rodent
- Snitch (on)
- Disney/Pixar's Remy, e.g.
- Urban scurrier
- Pied Piper target
- 'You dirty ___!'
- Scoun-drel
- Sewer resident
- ___ -a-tat
- See 89-Down
- Be a fink
- Sewer scurrier
- Sewer sight
- Dump dweller
- Lab rodent
- Maze expert
- Subway dweller
- Rizzo the Muppet, e.g.
- Rodent
- "Willard"'s Ben
- ___ pack
- One not to be trusted
- Frequenter
- Untrustworthy person
- Critter of the Chinese zodiac
- Word with pack or rug
- Garbage invader
- Prey for a cat
- Wharf resident
- Disloyal type
- Scurrying rodent
- Singer who doesn't want a hit?
- Word before race or pack
- 'House That Jack Built' critter
- Lab maze tester
- Year of the ___ (what 2008-09 was)
- Maze-running animal
- "Dirty" tattletale
- ___-a-tat (drum sound)
- Vole kin
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin, e.g.
- Squeal to the screws
- Landfill visitor
- Lowlife
- Mouse's kin
- Dirty one in a memorable Cagney line
- Possible prey of a 37-Down
- Mob pariah
- Tell, in a way
- Hamlin pest
- See 119-Down
- Untrustworthy guy
- Templeton of "Charlotte's Web," e.g.
- Chinese calendar figure
- Follower of the Pied Piper
- Instrument of torture in "1984"
- Cellar dweller
- Templeton of "Charlotte's Web," for one
- Singer who stays out of the spotlight?
- Common rodent
- Wharf rodent
- Rodent of the Chinese zodiac
- Scavenging pest
- Critter before or after pack
- Squealer with a tale or a tail
- Fink (on)
- Templeton, e.g., in "Charlotte's Web"
- Type of poison
- Rubbish rummager
- Slum rodent
- Sinking ship deserter
- Infamous deserter
- With 66-Across, drudge's routine
- Ben in the film "Ben"
- First animal in the Chinese zodiac
- Triggerman's target
- Candidate for cement boots
- Muppet Rizzo, for one
- Filthy rodent
- Chinese-year critter
- It has a long tail
- Squeal, in a way
- Mobster's "canary"
- Disney/Pixar's Remy or Emile
- Kind of a race or hole
- Henry, by the end of "Goodfellas"
- "Vegas ___ Rods" (Discovery Channel show featuring souped-up cars and trucks)
- Singer in an interrogation room?
- Sought-after mobster?
- Snake in the grass, metaphorically
- Sewer critter
- Quisling
- Subway scurrier
- Rizzo on "The Muppet Show", for one
- "The ___ Patrol"
- Subway vermin
- See 30-Down
- Pixar's Remy, for one
- Certain rodent
- *Mob hit victim
- Informer, slangily
- Prison canary?
- It may be studied in a lab
- Mongoose's prey
- A mazing animal?
- Laboratory testee
- Maze navigator
- Traitor type
- Exterminator's target, sometimes
- Mesmerized
- Alley rodent
- Attic forager
- Chinese zodiac beast
- One who helps break the case
- Sewer creature
- Maze runner, in a lab
- Pied Piper's follower
- Word with "pack" or "rug"
- Mob hit victim, sometimes
- Word that can precede or follow pack
- Deserter of a sinking ship
- Animal in the Chinese zodiac
- Mob informer
- State secrets?
- Inform on the mob
- One tailed in the sewers
- Cheese-loving pest
- Mouse's relative
- Lying scuzzbag
- Sinking ship's evacuee
- Source of a metaphorical smell
- "You dirty ___!" (famous film line)
- River rodent
- Subway station sighting
- Maze marathoner
- Act the fink
- Person not to be trusted
- Typically despised rodent
- Squealer, in slang
- Frequenter, so to speak
- Squeal on
- Dump frequenter
- Rodent Templeton in "Charlotte's Web," for one
- Proverbial deserter
- Fair-weather friend
- Dock dweller
- Expose, with "on"
- Research lab focus
- Maze-running rodent
- Mob squealer
- Rodent that's despicable to many
- Plague-carrying rodent
- Informer, so to speak
- What Ben is in "Ben"
- One violating omertà
- Finking sort
- Rodent turned informer?
- Templeton from "Charlotte's Web," e.g.
- Allowance
- *Lowdown scoundrel
- Victim of the Pied Piper
- ___ poison
- First-class fink
- Pestiferous rodent
- Tattle on, with "out"
- New York subway scurrier
- Slimeball
- Pied Piper hypnotee
- Urban omnivore
- Lab animal used for experiments
- Rodent with a trap
- Mouse's larger cousin
- Rodent larger than a mouse
- Street rodent
- Alley dweller
- Word after mole or mall
- Relative of a mouse
- Chinese New Year animal for most of 2008
- Critter with a long tail
- Sewer crawler
- Mostly despised rodent
- Race participant?
- Pizza ___ (2015 meme)
- Rodent in a sewer
- Common sewer rodent
- Splinter, for one
- Dumpster rodent
- Critter in a sewer
- Ron Weasley's pet animal
- Tattletail
- Squeaky Train song?
- Narc
- Modest Mouse "I Came As A ___"
- Festival narc
- Festival backstabber
- Walkmen hit "The ___"
- Dishonest manager
- Train song about a snitch?
- The Walkmen song about double-crosser (with "The")?
- Scumbag
- Hand back the deserter
- A form of life in the upper atmosphere
- He deserted from the regiment on Tuesday
- A deserter seems tip-top to an artist!
- Traitor in the pirates' midst
- Animal artist, Middle Eastern
- Deserter from a regiment for a short time
- He's treacherous, a bit of an ingrate
- Animal artist with a long-famous model
- You'll never get much gratitude from one
- A much less than ingratiating character
- Piece of Sheraton with four legs
- Operatic villian?
- Desert from the regiment when trouble starts
- Deserter from the artillery on Tuesday
- '11 Across' has one in a pie
- One deserting the ship?
- Torpedo's target, perhaps
- Syndicate snitch
- Sewer denizen
- Rodent - deserter
- Templeton in "Charlotte's Web," e.g.
- A renegade sailor's comeuppance
- Piper's follower
- Target of a hit
- Syndicate singer
- Bad singer?
- With 11 Down, exhausting routine
- One experimenting with new drugs, say
- Interrogation-room talker
- Maze runner, say
- Despised rodent
- Be suspicious, smell a ___
- Workaday routine, ___ race
- Daily grind, ___ race
- Plague rodent
- Large rodent
- See 18
- Inform
- Despicable person giving lift to sailor
- Dumpster-dwelling rodent
- Hand back the animal
- Dungeon dweller
- Ubiquitous rodent
- Pizza ___ (critter in a YouTube meme)
- Squealer, to a mafioso
- As an operatic part, a villain
- Scurrying creature
- Varmint
- Deserter from the Democratic Party
- With 8-Down, inform on
- Word after mall or gym
- It doesn't quite rate being petted
- Mob informant
- Unwanted basement dweller
- Sewer system scurrier
- "Eek!" elicitor
- Pack ___
- Scurrier in a sewer
- Word after pack or gym
- The type to show little gratitude
- Lab maze navigator
- Deserter from the artillery for a short time
- Animal enlarged in the horror film "Gnaw: Food of the Gods II"
- One might be paid to talk
- Rodent that's a traitor?
- Capybara's cousin
- Snitching mobster
- Little squealer
- Common lab animal
- Toad's characteristic associate?
- Chinese zodiac critter
- Deserter of an art form
- Lab maze animal
- Year of the ___ (2008 or 2020)
- With 54-Down, wearisome routine
- Scabbers, in the Potterverse
- In a lab, it's often white
- Animal feared by Winston in "1984"
- False friend
- Teller?
- Squealer, in two ways
- Vermin-catching cat's prey
- Tease, as hair
- Ron Weasley's pet Scabbers, for one
- Chinese Zodiac rodent
- Urban rodent
- Chinese zodiac animal for 2020
- Maze creature
- "Brother ___"
- Stereotypically unsanitary animal
- There's a "water" kind (in the Euphrates?)
- Remy or Rizzo
- An ingrate, this rotter?
- Laboratory creature
- An animated art form
- Squeal on the mob
- Chinese zodiac animal of 2020
- Rodent pet
- Animal within "pirate ship"
- 2020 zodiac animal
- 2020’s Chinese zodiac animal
- With 49 Down, contemptibles
- Subway critter
- Cousin of a mouse
- Early leaver?
- Creature that scurries
- Remy from "Ratatouille," for one
- Mouse relative
- Dump diner
- Maze rodent
- One to sniff out
- Subway scuttler
- Rodent type
- Mob outcast
- Pixar's aspiring chef Remy is one
- Splinter's species, in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
- One doing the dirty out of wrath?
- One often paid to talk
- Sewer animal
- Mall ___
- Creepy little critter
- Dirty rotten scoundrel
- Mall or gym frequenter
- 2020 Chinese zodiac animal
- In the Euphrates, it can go by water
- Desert animal?
- Whistleblower
- Unfaithful sort
- Nocturnal rodent
- Type of rodent
- Rizzo in "The Muppet Show," e.g.
- Squeaker or squealer
- "I Knew I Smelled a ___" (song from "Ratatouille the Musical")
- Word before race or trap
- Subway rodent
- Singer in the family?
- Pack ___ (hoarder)
- Disloyal one
- "Willard" subject
- Mobster's undoing
- Pet that eats pellets
- Pet that sleeps in a nest box
- A-mazing animal?
- Rodent that can be trained
- Narc (on)
- Rodent such as Master Splinter
- Bad singer?
- Pig follower in the Chinese zodiac
- Rodent many despise
- NYC subway animal
- Alley cat's prey
- Sociable rodent
- Rodent in a subway station
- Vermin
- Pet rodent
- Zodiac animal before the Ox
- Rodent in a dumpster
- Creature in a dark alley
- Zodiac rodent
- Nearsighted rodent
- Critter in a sewer, sometimes
- Bad person to confess bad things to
- Ship pest
- Name names
- Animal such as Remy in "Ratatouille"
- Animal artist, tip-top
- "The River ___"
- Desert from the artillery on Tuesday
- First animal in the Vietnamese zodiac
- Teller, maybe
- Remy in "Ratatouille," for one
- Zodiac animal after the Pig
- Peter Pettigrew's Animagus, in the Harry Potter books
- The one who deserted from the regiment on Tuesday?
- "I smell a ___!"
- Rodent used in demining
- Splinter from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," e.g.
- One who snitches
- First animal of the Chinese zodiac
- Rodent in a subway
- Rodent or snitch
- Dumpster visitor
- "Ratatouille" animal, fittingly
- Animal misrepresented in art
- Rizzo the ___, "The Muppet Show" character
- Dumpster critter
- Remy of "Ratatouille," for one
- Operatic villian?
- Master Splinter or Rizzo
- Sewer scamperer
- Rodent that followed the Pied Piper
- Creature frequently in a trap
- This little beast heartened pirates
- Animal seen as the vehicle of Ganesha
- Smallest of the Chinese zodiac animals
- Rodent pet with a scaly tale
- Remy or Templeton
- Creature with a long tail
- Chuck E. Cheese, e.g., until 1993
- Rodent that might drag a pizza slice through the New York City subway
- Ship defector
- Lab animal in a maze
- Remy from a Pixar movie, e.g.
- ___ czar, N.Y.C. government position whose job listing called for "a virulent vehemence for vermin"
- Rodent with a hairless tail
- Squeal or squealer
- Pizza ___ (rodent in a meme)
- Rodent such as Roddy
- Pixar's Remy is one
- Bit of an ingrate?
- Deserter from a concentration camp
- Rodent in the Vietnamese zodiac
- "Pack" rodent
- Cheese eater
- Chicago ___ hole
- Rodent in many psychology experiments
- One might be mistaken for a mouse
- Chinese zodiac animal after Pig
- Dumpster explorer
- First sign in the Chinese zodiac
- Cluny the Scourge in "Redwall," e.g.
- Mouse's bigger cousin
- Pest that can be a pet
- Urban scourge
- Rodent in a subway tunnel
- Mouse's
- Lab course participant?
- Rodent in some zodiacs
- Scampering rodent
- Splinter in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," e.g.
- "King ___"
- Villain in the opera "Tosca"
- Chinese zodiac creature
Last Seen In
- New York Times - August 21, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - August 18, 2026
- New York Times - August 16, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 28, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - July 16, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - July 12, 2026
- Your Life Choices - July 06, 2026
- Mirror Mini - July 04, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - July 04, 2026
- New York Times - July 01, 2026
- New York Times - July 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - June 24, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 24, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 24, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - June 15, 2026
- LA Times - June 05, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 31, 2026
- Your Life Choices - May 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 26, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - May 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 15, 2026
- New York Times - May 13, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - April 26, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 21, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - April 17, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - April 14, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 05, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 31, 2026
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