Answer: RAT
RAT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 502 times.
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 omertÃ
 - 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
 - Despised rodent
 - Dungeon dweller
 - Ubiquitous rodent
 - Pizza ___ (critter in a YouTube meme)
 - Scurrying creature
 - Scurring creature
 - Mob informant
 - Sewer system scurrier
 - Pack ___
 - Word after pack or gym
 - Lab maze navigator
 - One might be paid to talk
 - Chinese zodiac critter
 - Templeton in "Charlotte's Web," e.g.
 - Lab maze animal
 - Year of the ___ (2008 or 2020)
 - "nancy drew" newspaper: "the ___"
 - Scabbers, in the Potterverse
 - In a lab, it's often white
 - Animal feared by Winston in "1984"
 - False friend
 - Squealer, in two ways
 - Vermin-catching cat's prey
 - Ron Weasley's pet Scabbers, for one
 - Chinese Zodiac rodent
 - Zodiac animal for 2020
 - Stereotypically unsanitary animal
 - Brother
 - Remy or Rizzo
 - Squeal on the mob
 - Murid
 - Chinese zodiac animal of 2020
 - Animal within "pirate ship"
 - 2020 zodiac animal
 - With 49 Down, contemptibles
 - Subway critter
 - Cousin of a mouse
 - Mouse's larger cousin
 - Mouse relative
 - Maze rodent
 - One to sniff out
 - Pixar's aspiring chef Remy is one
 - Splinter's species, in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
 - One often paid to talk
 - Sewer animal
 - Mall ___
 - Dirty rotten scoundrel
 - Mall or gym frequenter
 - 2020 Chinese zodiac animal
 - Squealer or squeaker
 - ***Sewer dweller
 - Unfaithful sort
 - Rizzo in "The Muppet Show," e.g.
 - Squeaker or squealer
 - Word before race or trap
 - Subway rodent
 - Singer in the family?
 - Pack ___ (hoarder)
 - Disloyal one
 - Mobster's undoing
 - Pet that eats pellets
 - Pet that sleeps in a nest box
 - Narc (on)
 - Bad singer?
 - Pig follower in the Chinese zodiac
 - Sociable rodent
 - Bad person to confess bad things to
 - Pet rodent
 - Zodiac animal before the Ox
 - Ship pest
 - Rodent in a dumpster
 - Zodiac rodent
 - Name names
 - Animal such as Remy in "Ratatouille"
 - Teller, maybe
 - Remy in "Ratatouille," for one
 - Zodiac animal after the Pig
 - Peter Pettigrew's Animagus, in the Harry Potter books
 - "I smell a ___!"
 - Rodent used in demining
 - Splinter from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," e.g.
 - One who snitches
 - First animal of the Chinese zodiac
 - Chinese zodiac animal before the Ox
 - Rodent or snitch
 - Dumpster visitor
 - "Ratatouille" animal, fittingly
 - Rizzo the ___, "The Muppet Show" character
 - Sewer scamperer
 - Rodent that followed the Pied Piper
 - Contemptible fellow
 - Animal seen as the vehicle of Ganesha
 - Smallest of the Chinese zodiac animals
 - Rodent pet with a scaly tale
 - Chuck E. Cheese, e.g., until 1993
 - Lab animal in a maze
 - ___ czar, N.Y.C. government position whose job listing called for "a virulent vehemence for vermin"
 - Rodent such as Roddy
 - Rodent in the Vietnamese zodiac
 - "Pack" rodent
 - Chicago ___ hole
 - Rodent in many psychology experiments
 - One might be mistaken for a mouse
 - Chinese zodiac animal after Pig
 - Faithless one
 - 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
 - Animal fittingly used as a motif in "The Departed"
 - Rodent in a subway tunnel
 - Lab course participant?
 - Rodent in some zodiacs
 - Scampering rodent
 - Splinter in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," e.g.
 - Templeton in "Charlotte's Web," for one
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 19, 2025
 - USA Today - October 13, 2025
 - New York Times - October 01, 2025
 - USA Today - September 29, 2025
 - LA Times - September 28, 2025
 - New York Times - September 25, 2025
 - New York Times - September 24, 2025
 - New York Times - September 15, 2025
 - USA Today - July 25, 2025
 - New York Times - June 09, 2025
 - New York Times - May 28, 2025
 - LA Times - May 18, 2025
 - USA Today - April 09, 2025
 - New York Times - April 02, 2025
 - USA Today - April 01, 2025
 - LA Times - March 17, 2025
 - LA Times - March 13, 2025
 - New York Times - March 08, 2025
 - LA Times - March 02, 2025
 - New York Times - February 27, 2025
 
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