Answer: THIEF
THIEF is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 83 times.
Referring Clues:
- One available for the taking?
 - Chop shop supplier
 - Recipient of a stop order?
 - Copper?
 - Swindler
 - One ordered to stop?
 - One taking inventory?
 - Fence supplier
 - Fence's supplier
 - Shoplifter
 - Pickpocket
 - Crook
 - Fagin, notably
 - One who takes things wrongly?
 - Highwayman
 - Robber
 - 65-Across puller
 - One in need of a fence, perhaps
 - One taking things badly?
 - Pickpocket, e.g.
 - Fence user, perhaps
 - Rustler
 - ''To Catch a __'' (Hitchcock film)
 - Larcenous one
 - One who steals
 - Light-fingered one
 - Man of steal?
 - Cat burglar, e.g.
 - One committing 25-Down
 - Fence user
 - Larcenist
 - Robert Wagner played one
 - Robin Hood or Jesse James
 - Second-story man
 - Cat burglar
 - Pickpocket, for one
 - "To Catch a ___" (Hitchcock film)
 - Kleptomaniac
 - One taking things wrong?
 - Den denizen?
 - Den denizen?
 - Den denizen?
 - Person who uses the "five-finger discount"
 - Jean Valjean, e.g.
 - "Stop!" follower
 - Moll flanders, e.g.
 - Burglar
 - Filcher
 - Pilferer
 - Five-finger discount taker
 - Shoplifter or safecracker
 - Artful Dodger, for one
 - Criminal
 - "Oliver Twist" occupation
 - Shoplifter, e.g.
 - "It Takes a ___"
 - One who takes it the wrong way?
 - Pickup artist?
 - Booster
 - Fagin trainee
 - Swindler, e.g.
 - One who takes things the wrong way
 - Robin Hood, notably
 - Cooler tenant
 - Petty criminal
 - Robber or shoplifter
 - Dickens's Fagin, e.g.
 - Sticky-fingered sort
 - Doberman pincher?
 - Sarah manning on "orphan black" e.g.
 - Porch pirate, for one
 - Crime film character
 - Sticky-fingered one
 - One in a metaphorical web
 - Heist figure
 - Pickpocket or porch pirate
 - Ladrone
 - Porch pirate, e.g.
 - Note taker?
 - Many an "Ocean's Eleven" character
 - "The Book ___": Markus Zusak novel
 - Man of steal
 - Pincher
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - July 17, 2025
 - LA Times - February 08, 2025
 - LA Times - December 10, 2024
 - LA Times - September 22, 2024
 - USA Today - June 06, 2024
 - LA Times - September 06, 2023
 - LA Times - July 04, 2023
 - New York Times - April 15, 2023
 - LA Times - September 11, 2022
 - USA Today - June 23, 2022
 - Universal - April 24, 2021
 - LA Times - February 28, 2021
 - Netword - August 01, 2020
 - Universal - July 23, 2020
 - Netword - April 26, 2020
 - LA Times - March 19, 2020
 - LA Times - January 20, 2020
 - LA Times - December 19, 2019
 - USA Today - July 11, 2019
 - LA Times - October 13, 2018
 
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