Answer: SPIES
SPIES is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 105 times.
Referring Clues:
- People who aren't what they seem
- Spooks
- Those seeking intelligence
- Cloak-and-dagger types
- Uses a tap, perhaps
- Black-clad and white-clad Mad adversaries
- Most "Get Smart" characters
- This puzzle's theme involves fictional ones
- Mata Hari et al.
- Undercover agents
- Notices
- Nathan Hale and others
- Bond and Bourne
- Spots
- Agents
- Moles, maybe
- Bond's cohorts
- Moles, for example
- Works in intelligence
- Catches sight of
- Secret agents
- Parts of some rings
- Le Carre characters
- People of intelligence?
- Double agents
- Intelligence operatives
- Fleming characters
- Some enemies of the state
- Secret observers
- Operatives
- Secretly watches
- Those seeking intelligence?
- Surreptitious types
- Sneaks peeks
- Some spooks
- Black and white Mad magazine figures
- Agents 86 and 99, in "Get Smart"
- 007's ilk
- Fears of some paranoiacs
- Smiley's people
- 007 and 99
- Smiley, et al.
- They gather intelligence
- They may work for both sides
- Certain moles
- Some agents
- Moles, e.g.
- M's men
- CIA types
- They may bug you
- Some plants
- Discerns
- Some "Bourne" film characters
- Bond and Bourne, for two
- Uses a keyhole, perhaps
- Cloak-and-dagger group
- Bug specialists?
- Bug specialists
- Dossier subjects
- Mata Hari, et al.
- They know things you don't think they know
- Ones seeking intelligence
- Some moles
- They want to gain intelligence
- Moles and plants
- Enemy agents
- M's subordinates
- 007 and others
- CIA employees
- Infiltrators
- Secret collectors
- Plants or moles
- "Bridge of ___"
- Human moles, e.g.
- Bond and Smart, for two
- Covert agents
- What human moles are
- Intelligence crew
- Furtive sorts
- 1928 Fritz Lang thriller
- John le Carré heroes
- Moles, perhaps
- Counterintelligence targets
- Bond and others
- Undercover operatives
- Intel seekers
- Secret passers
- Seekers of secrets
- Seekers of intel
- They seek secrets
- *Intelligence gatherers
- Intel collectors
- Espionage figures
- People who might bug others
- Does some undercover work
- Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable, for example
- Secret traders
- Fleming subjects
- Deep fakes?
- Professionals who might bug people
- Many John le Carré characters
- Masters of disguise
- Intel employees?
- Plants, maybe
- Snooping sorts
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 30, 2025
- New York Times - April 18, 2025
- USA Today - March 14, 2025
- LA Times - February 16, 2025
- New York Times - December 20, 2024
- New York Times - August 30, 2024
- LA Times - July 25, 2024
- LA Times - February 21, 2024
- New York Times - December 27, 2023
- USA Today - December 11, 2023
- USA Today - October 03, 2023
- LA Times - June 23, 2023
- LA Times - April 12, 2023
- LA Times - March 16, 2023
- USA Today - December 09, 2022
- LA Times - June 13, 2022
- USA Today - June 01, 2022
- New York Times - May 24, 2022
- USA Today - March 01, 2022
- USA Today - October 20, 2021
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