Answer: STRAY
STRAY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 101 times.
Referring Clues:
- Homeless animal
- It may be rounded up in a roundup
- Shelter adoptee
- Dogcatcher's catch
- Sin
- Range
- One may be impounded
- Leave the herd
- Drift
- Not stay on the path
- Leave the flock
- Alley cat, perhaps
- Leave the straight and narrow
- Shepherd's concern
- Alley cat
- Dogie
- Many a cat lover's acquisition
- Random
- Alley wanderer
- Dogcatcher's quarry
- Get off the beaten path
- Maverick
- Dogcatcher's quarry, at times
- Dog pound dog
- Pound impound
- ___ Cats ("Rock This Town" group)
- Digress
- Abandoned pet
- "___ Cat Strut" (1983 hit)
- Prospective adoptee
- It's weighed by the pound
- Wander off course
- Wander
- Errant
- Get sidetracked
- Wander off
- Leave the path
- Go away from the fold
- Leave the trail
- Sheepdog's target
- Go off the path
- Pound prospect
- It may be impounded
- Leave the beaten path
- Dogcatcher's pickup
- Lost calf
- Take the scenic route
- Ranch wanderer
- Wandering animal
- Pound dog
- Wander away
- Pickup for a pound
- Runaway
- Incidental
- Alley cat, e.g.
- Alley cat. e.g.
- Veer off the beaten path
- Lost dog
- Potential pet
- Dog found in the pound
- Wander off the path
- Range rover
- One feeling abandoned
- Homeless dog
- Homeless cat
- Move away from the crowd
- Lab at large, perhaps
- Cattle drive concern
- Rescued one, hopefully
- Waif
- Cowpuncher's worry
- Occurring as an isolated instance
- Animal shelter animal
- Pound resident
- Go off on a tangent
- Back-alley cat, e.g.
- Shelter dog
- Go off the trail
- Lost livestock
- Animal shelter arrival
- Good candidate for adoption
- Wander from the path
- Part of a pound?
- Lost pet
- Pound inhabitant
- Go off course
- Potential rescue
- Deviate
- Go afield
- Alley cat, for example
- Scattered
- Type of cat
- Get off topic
- Pound-bound hound, say
- Deviate from the course
- Many a pound adoptee
- Many a pet shelter pet, at one point
- Adoptee, at times
- Cheat, so to speak
- Wander from the group
- Cat in need of a home, perhaps
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - August 20, 2025
- New York Times - May 05, 2025
- New York Times - September 15, 2024
- LA Times - August 17, 2024
- LA Times - October 22, 2023
- New York Times - April 24, 2023
- USA Today - March 22, 2022
- LA Times - October 16, 2021
- USA Today - August 06, 2021
- New York Times - June 03, 2021
- LA Times - March 19, 2021
- Netword - December 22, 2020
- Netword - October 31, 2020
- USA Today - September 29, 2020
- USA Today - April 23, 2020
- USA Today - February 07, 2020
- Universal - November 17, 2019
- New York Times - October 28, 2019
- New York Times - October 25, 2019
- LA Times - October 12, 2019
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