Answer: THEFT
THEFT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 60 times.
Referring Clues:
- Embezzlement, e.g.
 - Lifting
 - Grand ___
 - Larceny
 - It's a steal
 - Robbery
 - Five-finger discount
 - Taking the wrong way?
 - An alarm may deter it
 - Identity __
 - It may be grand
 - Wrongful removal
 - Car-insurance coverage
 - Bank job
 - Cause of merchandise shrinkage
 - Cause of shrinkage
 - Retailer's woe
 - Shrinkage, to a retailer
 - Shoplifting, e.g.
 - Property crime
 - Taking things wrong?
 - Robin Hood's transgression
 - Identity ___
 - Word following grand or identity
 - Stealer's crime
 - Thug's crime, often
 - Burglary
 - Pilferage
 - 'Petty' crime
 - Museum concern
 - Shoplifting, for example
 - Grand ___ Auto
 - Burglar's crime
 - Shoplifting
 - Asportation
 - Misappropriation
 - Eighth Commandment taboo, per KJV
 - Piracy, e.g.
 - Unlawful removal
 - Robber's crime
 - Stealing
 - Underhanded undertaking
 - What stores call "shrinkage"
 - Ripoff
 - Taking something badly?
 - A purloining
 - "Five-finger discount"
 - Purloinment
 - Holdup, for instance
 - Taking it badly?
 - Word with grand or identity
 - Crime of stealing
 - Taking things literally?
 - Cat burglar's crime
 - Lifting, maybe
 - Grand ___ Auto: video game
 - Wage ___
 - Carmen Sandiego's crime
 - Taboo in one of the Ten Commandments
 - Jean Valjean's crime
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - September 24, 2025
 - LA Times - February 05, 2024
 - LA Times - August 11, 2023
 - New York Times - August 03, 2023
 - LA Times - June 14, 2023
 - LA Times - July 10, 2022
 - LA Times - June 02, 2022
 - USA Today - April 07, 2021
 - LA Times - January 25, 2021
 - LA Times - December 20, 2020
 - Netword - December 16, 2020
 - USA Today - September 01, 2020
 - Universal - March 03, 2020
 - Netword - November 24, 2019
 - Netword - September 03, 2019
 - New York Times - July 28, 2019
 - LA Times - July 14, 2019
 - Netword - July 12, 2019
 - Netword - June 21, 2019
 - LA Times - June 21, 2019
 
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