Clues for the word "SPY"
We've had 472 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1170 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on April 14, 2025.
Definition of spy
- v. t. - To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.
- v. t. - To discover by close search or examination.
- v. t. - To explore; to view; inspect; and examine secretly, as a country; -- usually with out.
- v. i. - To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
- n. - One who keeps a constant watch of the conduct of others.
- n. - A person sent secretly into an enemy's camp, territory, or fortifications, to inspect his works, ascertain his strength, movements, or designs, and to communicate such intelligence to the proper officer.
Referring Clues
- Scout
- Kind of catcher
- Peek in (on)
- Operative
- Le Carré staple
- Look in (on)
- Mata Hari, e.g.
- Mole
- Le Carré character
- Stratego piece
- Plant, perhaps
- Dangerous job
- Bond, for one
- Good looker?
- Finder of secrets
- Bug someone, e.g.
- Snoop
- Microfilmer, maybe
- Snoop (on)
- Shadow, maybe
- One with a cover
- Telephoto lens user, maybe
- Spotter
- One may bug you
- Seek intelligence
- Tail, maybe
- Wire wearer
- Hush-hush job
- Person with intelligence
- 007, for one
- Mata Hari, for one
- Infiltrator
- Notice
- One who may bug you
- Mole, e.g.
- Person with a code name, maybe
- U-2 pilot, e.g.
- Sneak a peek
- Austin Powers, e.g.
- Cover girl, e.g.?
- With 5-Down, snooping aid
- "Alias" type
- Le Carré's Magnus Pym, for one
- Look through a keyhole
- Cloak-and-dagger type
- Cloak-and-dagger figure
- Be a mole
- U.N.C.L.E. employee
- Security threat
- LeCarre character
- Bond or Powers
- Mole, maybe
- Novel type
- Austin Powers, for one
- Flint or Helm, e.g.
- Intelligence agent
- Undercover agent
- Undercover worker
- Mata Hari, notably
- 6-Down, for one
- James Bond, for one
- George Smiley, e.g.
- Bond, for example
- Eavesdropper
- One might need a cover
- Work under cover
- James Bond, e.g.
- '80s-'90s "Separated at Birth?" monthly
- Gather info surreptitiously
- Wiretapper, maybe
- Office plant, at times?
- Defunct humor magazine
- Mole with secrets
- One with a code name, perhaps
- Observe covertly
- Word repeated in Mad magazine's "___ vs. ___"
- Invisible ink user
- Nathan Hale, notably
- Bug planter
- Northern ___ (apple variety)
- Bugger, maybe
- Intelligencer
- Only Stratego piece that can take a marshal
- Valerie Plame, notably
- One with a code name
- Catch sight of
- Double agent, e.g.
- Bond, e.g.
- Only Stratego piece with a letter on it
- Powers, e.g.
- "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, ___"
- Lettered Stratego piece
- Black or white Mad character
- Maxwell Smart, e.g.
- Sneak
- Thriller hero, often
- Unwelcome plant?
- Work undercover
- One of two regular Mad magazine opponents
- Cold war figure
- Use a hidden camera, say
- Smart, for one
- Agent
- Hale, for one
- Espionage figure
- Covert operator
- Cosby's first prime-time role
- Intelligence gatherer
- See suddenly
- One undercover
- Mole, for one
- Spot
- Government agent
- Secret agent
- Do undercover work
- Secret stealer
- Maxwell Smart, for one
- Unwelcome plant
- Double agent
- Person with intelligence?
- "And Moses sent them to ___ out the land of Canaan"
- Engage in espionage
- He came in from the cold
- 007, e.g.
- Intelligence purveyor
- Seek intelligence, in a way
- Emulate a peeping Tom
- Man of intelligence?
- Kind of glass
- Smart or Bond, e.g.
- Watch undercover
- "Mission: Impossible" figure
- Agency employee, perhaps
- One wearing a wire, perhaps
- Telephoto-lens user, perhaps
- Smiley or Smart
- Nathan Hale, e.g.
- Passer of secret documents
- Word before and after "vs." in a Mad feature
- Secrets stealer
- Acquire intelligence
- "I ___" (Culp/Cosby TV show)
- Work undercover, in a way
- 19-Down employee
- Watch covertly
- Undercover sort
- "I ___" (early Cosby show)
- World traveler, perhaps
- Use a tap, perhaps
- Intel collector
- Mole, perhaps
- Be a voyeur, perhaps
- "The ___ Who Loved Me"
- Bug user
- Look through keyholes
- Code user
- Watch secretly
- Le Carré hero, e.g.
- "And Moses sent them to ___ out the land of Canaan"
- Smiley, Smart or Solo
- Seek secrets
- Valerie Plame, e.g.
- Plotted plant?
- Use binoculars, perhaps
- Bond, e,g.
- Work under cover, in a way
- Concern yourself with intelligence
- Look through a peephole, perhaps
- Mole or plant
- Plant of a sort
- Camp intruder
- Secret watcher
- Snoop(3)
- Writer in cipher, maybe
- Foe of 71-Across in Mad magazine
- Foe of 1-Across in Mad magazine
- Intelligence officer
- Try to improve one's intelligence illegally, perhaps
- Emma's portrayer in "The Avengers"
- Emma's portrayer in "The Avengers"
- Secretly watch, with "on"
- Alias user
- Dangerous occupation
- 007 is one
- Mole, e.g. 19. Thumbs-down vote
- Agt.
- 21-Across employee
- Keep tabs (on)
- Bond, for instance
- 007, for instance
- KGB worker
- CIA sort
- KGB figure
- CIA employee
- CIA figure
- CIA worker
- Caleb, for one
- Peek through a keyhole
- Mad antagonist
- Person of intelligence?
- Intelligence seeker
- One who might be recruited
- Sight
- Many a bugger
- Le Carre creation
- Plant or mole
- Saskatchewan's ____ Hill
- Observe furtively
- Use a peephole, say
- A mole sometime
- CIA agent
- Watch furtively
- Mata Hari was one
- Le Carre character, or Saskatchewan hill
- One seeking intelligence
- Bug planter, perhaps
- Watch from the bushes
- Intelligence worker
- Plant, maybe
- I ____
- James Fenimore Cooper novel, with "The"
- Cloak-and-dagger sort
- Jason Bourne, for one
- Agent of espionage
- Go undercover
- Le Carré's Smiley, for one
- Search for intelligence
- Peep
- Apple variety
- Plant gathering information
- Stratego piece with a monocle
- One who bugs people?
- Many a character in TV's "The Americans"
- Mole or shadow, perhaps
- Secret collector
- What was Caleb in the Bible?
- Unwanted plant?
- Binoculars user
- Furtive sort
- Human mole
- Fifth columnist
- State secret stealer
- Mole, by definition
- Keep watch
- One of a pair of Mad adversaries
- CIA operative
- "Austin Powers: The ___ Who Shagged Me"
- Bug someone's phone, e.g.
- "I ___" (Cosby series)
- Professional snooper
- One of Smiley's people
- "___ kids"
- Expert on bugs?
- Sleeper, maybe
- One of two Mad rivals
- Invasive plant
- Do private eye work
- Authority on bugs?
- One eavesdropping, perhaps
- 2015 Melissa McCarthy comedy
- Half of a classic Mad magazine feature
- Le Carré figure
- Fix
- Tom Clancy figure
- Foreign agent
- Work for the CIA
- Secret admirer?
- Le Carre subject
- Gather intelligence
- Bond or Bourne
- Covert agent
- Wire planter, perhaps
- "___ Game"
- Busybody, maybe
- Use to much nose
- Undercover infiltrator
- Leader of a double life
- Do surveillance
- Bug someone?
- Many a character in "The Americans"
- Eavesdrop
- Many a Tom Clancy character
- Bug-planting sort
- Nathan Hale, for the Colonies
- Person handling bugs?
- Two-legged plant, perhaps
- Watch sneakily
- One with a phony passport, maybe
- Mole, for example
- No Clue
- Collect sensitive material
- James Bond is one
- Enemy agent
- One wearing sunglasses, stereotypically
- Peeper
- Work covertly
- Nonnative plant?
- Be a secret watcher
- Mata Hari, i.e.
- Person seeking intelligence?
- Bug catcher, maybe
- One on an op
- Counter conclusion
- Intel accumulator
- Intel seeker
- Person wearing a trench coat and sunglasses, stereotypically
- Kind of mole
- Gatherer of intelligence
- Double-O sort
- Mole seeking intelligence
- Agent of 64-Across
- Person using binoculars, maybe
- Person bugging you?
- Seeker of secrets
- Someone with intelligence?
- Seeker of intel
- Kind of satellite
- Wiretapper, e.g.
- "I ___"
- Catch a glimpse of
- TV's "I ___"
- Agent 007, e.g.
- Do some undercover work
- Do some surveillance
- MI6 member
- One of a few Russians in 2010 news
- Secret Squirrel, e.g.
- James Bond, for example
- Stealth song off "Morrison Hotel" (with "The")?
- '79 Carly Simon album for a mole?
- Spot or mole?
- A person of dangerous intelligence?
- Look soppy without work
- Dead drop user
- User of gadgets, maybe
- Person with a cover
- Plant in a government office, maybe
- Secret seeker
- Look - a person of intelligence!
- Place bugs or wires
- Clancy novel character
- Mag that featured a pregnant Bruce Willis on its cover
- Gain intelligence
- 007, for example
- Observe
- Bug expert?
- "Harriet the ___" (children's novel)
- One using bugs
- Do CIA work
- Job for someone like Carrie Mathison on "Homeland"
- Le Carre's Leamus
- One with secrets to tell
- Intelligence pro
- Agent of intelligence?
- One of many in TV's "The Americans"
- Undercover man
- Undercover one
- Bourne or Bond
- Invasive plant?
- Seeker of secrets, perhaps
- Jason Bourne, e.g.
- Gatherer of intel
- Despite the soppy exterior, a person of intelligence
- Informer
- Turncoat
- Agent with a fake passport, perhaps
- I do so playfully
- One gathering intel
- One might have a cover
- Intel gatherer
- MI6 agent
- Make like a mole
- Do a mole's job
- Special Stratego piece
- MI6 figure
- Le Carre hero
- "Harriet the ___"
- Someone not likely to show off intelligence?
- Eavesdrop, say
- Sleeper, perhaps
- James Bond's occupation
- Do recon
- One with a handler
- Have a look-see
- Listening device user
- One has a cover but isn't an open book
- Action movie figure, perhaps
- Smart or Solo
- One who bugs another person?
- Undercover asset
- Expert on bugs?
- Look shy, except for being soft hearted!
- Telephoto lens user, often
- Use a nanny cam, say
- Caleb, e.g.
- Person with a fake passport, maybe
- Eve in “Killing Eve,” for one
- Underground worker
- One may hide a camera
- One lurking in the shadows
- ___ ring
- Espionage agent
- International ___ Museum (Washington, D.C., attraction)
- Keep watch (on)
- Piece in Stratego
- Intelligence agency asset
- Person who works with bugs?
- Stealer of secrets
- Dangerous plant to have around?
- ___-fi
- One might pose as a diplomat
- One may wear a wire
- One role for Harriet Tubman in the Civil War
- One who's got the bug?
- "I ___ with my little eye ..."
- One cracking codes and eavesdropping
- Security breacher
- Operative sneaking information
- Black Widow, for one
- Six-foot mole
- Mole in the bushes?
- Word with glass or ware
- Melissa McCarthy secret agent movie
- Do some recon
- Gather information by snooping
- Stock thriller character
- A person of dangerous intelligence?
- Stratego piece with an "S" on it
- Double agent, for example
- "Harriet the ___": kid-lit classic
- One doing inside work
- Northern ___ (curiously named apple variety)
- Monitor of a tap
- Who might bug you?
- Intel employee?
- Lead-in to ware
- View
- Gather information
- Do some snooping
- One with an inside job
- Do some espionage
- Sneaky operative
- Agent who might pose as a diplomat
- Word on either side of "vs."
- Mole that should definitely be removed?
- Hidden asset?
- Informer, maybe
- Agent P's job on "Phineas and Ferb"
- "Killing Eve" occupation
- John le Carré figure
- Eve in "Killing Eve," for one
- Plant, for one
- Do some CIA work
- "___ vs. ___" (MAD Magazine strip)
- "___ vs
- "___ vs. ___" (MAD Magazine comic)
- Perry the Platypus is one
- Have a bug?
- Agent P from "Phineas and Ferb"
- Agent such as Susan Cooper
- ___ vs. ___ (Mad strip)
- Northern ___ apples
- Intelligence collector
- Source of unwanted bugs?
- Asset in a covert op
- Acquire secret intelligence
- Plant with bugs, maybe
- Bad person to confide in
- Undercover operative
- Harriet Tubman was one for the Union
- Plant with bugs?
- Ian Fleming figure
Last Seen In
- LA Times - April 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 04, 2025
- New York Times - March 19, 2025
- New York Times - March 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 03, 2025
- New York Times - February 23, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 15, 2025
- New York Times - February 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 23, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 01, 2025
- New York Times - December 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 18, 2024
- USA Today - December 11, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 09, 2024
- New York Times - December 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 04, 2024
- Family Time - December 02, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 27, 2024
- USA Today - November 20, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 19, 2024
- USA Today - November 18, 2024
- LA Times - November 10, 2024
- LA Times - November 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 31, 2024
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