Answer: SPY
SPY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 417 times.
Referring Clues:
- Scout
 - Kind of catcher
 - Peek in (on)
 - Operative
 - Le Carré staple
 - Look in (on)
 - Mata Hari, e.g.
 - Mole
 - Le Carré character
 - Stratego piece
 - Plant, perhaps
 - Dangerous job
 - Bond, for one
 - Good looker?
 - Finder of secrets
 - Bug someone, e.g.
 - Snoop
 - Microfilmer, maybe
 - Snoop (on)
 - Shadow, maybe
 - One with a cover
 - Telephoto lens user, maybe
 - Spotter
 - One may bug you
 - Seek intelligence
 - Tail, maybe
 - Wire wearer
 - Hush-hush job
 - Person with intelligence
 - 007, for one
 - Mata Hari, for one
 - Infiltrator
 - Notice
 - One who may bug you
 - Mole, e.g.
 - Person with a code name, maybe
 - U-2 pilot, e.g.
 - Sneak a peek
 - Austin Powers, e.g.
 - Cover girl, e.g.?
 - With 5-Down, snooping aid
 - "Alias" type
 - Le Carré's Magnus Pym, for one
 - Look through a keyhole
 - Cloak-and-dagger type
 - Cloak-and-dagger figure
 - Be a mole
 - U.N.C.L.E. employee
 - Security threat
 - LeCarre character
 - Bond or Powers
 - Mole, maybe
 - Novel type
 - Austin Powers, for one
 - Flint or Helm, e.g.
 - Intelligence agent
 - Undercover agent
 - Undercover worker
 - Mata Hari, notably
 - 6-Down, for one
 - James Bond, for one
 - George Smiley, e.g.
 - Bond, for example
 - Eavesdropper
 - One might need a cover
 - Work under cover
 - James Bond, e.g.
 - '80s-'90s "Separated at Birth?" monthly
 - Gather info surreptitiously
 - Wiretapper, maybe
 - Office plant, at times?
 - Defunct humor magazine
 - Mole with secrets
 - One with a code name, perhaps
 - Observe covertly
 - Word repeated in Mad magazine's "___ vs. ___"
 - Invisible ink user
 - Nathan Hale, notably
 - Bug planter
 - Northern ___ (apple variety)
 - Bugger, maybe
 - Intelligencer
 - Only Stratego piece that can take a marshal
 - Valerie Plame, notably
 - One with a code name
 - Catch sight of
 - Double agent, e.g.
 - Bond, e.g.
 - Only Stratego piece with a letter on it
 - Powers, e.g.
 - "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, ___"
 - Lettered Stratego piece
 - Black or white Mad character
 - Maxwell Smart, e.g.
 - Sneak
 - Thriller hero, often
 - Unwelcome plant?
 - Work undercover
 - One of two regular Mad magazine opponents
 - Cold war figure
 - Use a hidden camera, say
 - Smart, for one
 - Agent
 - Hale, for one
 - Espionage figure
 - Covert operator
 - Cosby's first prime-time role
 - Intelligence gatherer
 - See suddenly
 - One undercover
 - Mole, for one
 - Spot
 - Government agent
 - Secret agent
 - Do undercover work
 - Secret stealer
 - Maxwell Smart, for one
 - Unwelcome plant
 - Double agent
 - Person with intelligence?
 - ''And Moses sent them to ___ out the land of Canaan''
 - Engage in espionage
 - He came in from the cold
 - 007, e.g.
 - Intelligence purveyor
 - Seek intelligence, in a way
 - Emulate a peeping Tom
 - Man of intelligence?
 - Kind of glass
 - Smart or Bond, e.g.
 - Watch undercover
 - "Mission: Impossible" figure
 - Agency employee, perhaps
 - One wearing a wire, perhaps
 - Telephoto-lens user, perhaps
 - Smiley or Smart
 - Nathan Hale, e.g.
 - Passer of secret documents
 - Word before and after "vs." in a Mad feature
 - Secrets stealer
 - Acquire intelligence
 - "I ___" (Culp/Cosby TV show)
 - Work undercover, in a way
 - 19-Down employee
 - Watch covertly
 - Undercover sort
 - "I ___" (early Cosby show)
 - World traveler, perhaps
 - Use a tap, perhaps
 - Intel collector
 - Mole, perhaps
 - Be a voyeur, perhaps
 - "The ___ Who Loved Me"
 - Bug user
 - Look through keyholes
 - Code user
 - Watch secretly
 - Le Carré hero, e.g.
 - "And Moses sent them to ___ out the land of Canaan"
 - Smiley, Smart or Solo
 - Seek secrets
 - Valerie Plame, e.g.
 - Plotted plant?
 - Use binoculars, perhaps
 - Bond, e,g.
 - Work under cover, in a way
 - Concern yourself with intelligence
 - Look through a peephole, perhaps
 - Mole or plant
 - Plant of a sort
 - Camp intruder
 - Secret watcher
 - Snoop(3)
 - Writer in cipher, maybe
 - Foe of 71-Across in Mad magazine
 - Foe of 1-Across in Mad magazine
 - Intelligence officer
 - Try to improve one's intelligence illegally, perhaps
 - Emma's portrayer in "The Avengers"
 - Emma's portrayer in "The Avengers"
 - Secretly watch, with "on"
 - Alias user
 - Dangerous occupation
 - 007 is one
 - Mole, e.g. 19. Thumbs-down vote
 - Agt.
 - 21-Across employee
 - Keep tabs (on)
 - Bond, for instance
 - 007, for instance
 - KGB worker
 - CIA sort
 - KGB figure
 - CIA employee
 - CIA figure
 - CIA worker
 - Caleb, for one
 - Peek through a keyhole
 - Mad antagonist
 - Person of intelligence?
 - Intelligence seeker
 - One who might be recruited
 - Sight
 - Many a bugger
 - Le Carre creation
 - Plant or mole
 - Saskatchewan's ____ Hill
 - Observe furtively
 - Use a peephole, say
 - A mole sometime
 - CIA agent
 - Watch furtively
 - Mata Hari was one
 - Le Carre character, or Saskatchewan hill
 - One seeking intelligence
 - Bug planter, perhaps
 - Watch from the bushes
 - Intelligence worker
 - Plant, maybe
 - I ____
 - James Fenimore Cooper novel, with "The"
 - Cloak-and-dagger sort
 - Jason Bourne, for one
 - Agent of espionage
 - Go undercover
 - Le Carré's Smiley, for one
 - Search for intelligence
 - Peep
 - Apple variety
 - Plant gathering information
 - Stratego piece with a monocle
 - One who bugs people?
 - Many a character in TV's "The Americans"
 - Mole or shadow, perhaps
 - Secret collector
 - What was Caleb in the Bible?
 - Unwanted plant?
 - Binoculars user
 - Furtive sort
 - Human mole
 - Fifth columnist
 - State secret stealer
 - Mole, by definition
 - Keep watch
 - One of a pair of Mad adversaries
 - CIA operative
 - "Austin Powers: The ___ Who Shagged Me"
 - Bug someone's phone, e.g.
 - "I ___" (Cosby series)
 - Professional snooper
 - One of Smiley's people
 - "___ kids"
 - Expert on bugs?
 - Sleeper, maybe
 - One of two Mad rivals
 - Invasive plant
 - Do private eye work
 - Authority on bugs?
 - One eavesdropping, perhaps
 - 2015 Melissa McCarthy comedy
 - Half of a classic Mad magazine feature
 - Le Carré figure
 - Fix
 - Tom Clancy figure
 - Foreign agent
 - Work for the CIA
 - Secret admirer?
 - Le Carre subject
 - Gather intelligence
 - Bond or Bourne
 - Covert agent
 - Wire planter, perhaps
 - "___ Game"
 - Busybody, maybe
 - Use to much nose
 - Undercover infiltrator
 - Leader of a double life
 - Do surveillance
 - Bug someone?
 - Many a character in "The Americans"
 - Eavesdrop
 - Many a Tom Clancy character
 - Bug-planting sort
 - Nathan Hale, for the Colonies
 - Person handling bugs?
 - Two-legged plant, perhaps
 - Watch sneakily
 - One with a phony passport, maybe
 - Mole, for example
 - No Clue
 - Collect sensitive material
 - James Bond is one
 - Enemy agent
 - One wearing sunglasses, stereotypically
 - Peeper
 - Work covertly
 - Nonnative plant?
 - Be a secret watcher
 - Mata Hari, i.e.
 - Person seeking intelligence?
 - Bug catcher, maybe
 - One on an op
 - Counter conclusion
 - Intel accumulator
 - Intel seeker
 - Person wearing a trench coat and sunglasses, stereotypically
 - Kind of mole
 - Gatherer of intelligence
 - Double-O sort
 - Mole seeking intelligence
 - Agent of 64-Across
 - Person using binoculars, maybe
 - Person bugging you?
 - Seeker of secrets
 - Someone with intelligence?
 - Seeker of intel
 - Kind of satellite
 - Wiretapper, e.g.
 - Rudolf Abel, e.g.
 - Hari or Hale
 - Bug expert?
 - One using bugs
 - Do CIA work
 - "Covert Affairs" job
 - One with secrets to tell
 - Place bugs or wires
 - One of many in TV's "The Americans"
 - Bourne or Bond
 - Invasive plant?
 - Gatherer of intel
 - Agent with a fake passport, perhaps
 - One gathering intel
 - Intel gatherer
 - MI6 agent
 - Make like a mole
 - Do a mole's job
 - Special Stratego piece
 - MI6 figure
 - Le Carre hero
 - Someone not likely to show off intelligence?
 - Sleeper, perhaps
 - Do recon
 - One with a handler
 - Listening device user
 - One has a cover but isn't an open book
 - Action movie figure, perhaps
 - One who bugs another person?
 - Undercover asset
 - Use a nanny cam, say
 - Catch a glimpse of
 - Underground worker
 - One may hide a camera
 - One lurking in the shadows
 - ___ ring
 - Espionage agent
 - International ___ Museum (Washington, D.C., attraction)
 - Keep watch (on)
 - Piece in Stratego
 - Intelligence agency asset
 - Person who works with bugs?
 - Stealer of secrets
 - Dangerous plant to have around?
 - ___-fi
 - Telephoto lens user, perhaps
 - One may wear a wire
 - One role for Harriet Tubman in the Civil War
 - One who's got the bug?
 - "I ___ with my little eye ..."
 - Security breacher
 - Black Widow, for one
 - Word with glass or ware
 - Melissa McCarthy secret agent movie
 - Do some recon
 - One doing inside work
 - Monitor of a tap
 - Stock thriller character
 - Who might bug you?
 - Stratego piece with an "S" on it
 - Double agent, for example
 - "Harriet the ___": kid-lit classic
 - Lead-in to ware
 - View
 - Do some snooping
 - One with an inside job
 - Word on either side of "vs."
 - Mole that should definitely be removed?
 - "___ Kids" (2001 movie)
 - Hidden asset?
 - Informer, maybe
 - "Killing Eve" occupation
 - John le Carré figure
 - Catch
 - Eve in "Killing Eve," for one
 - Plant, for one
 - Agent such as Austin Powers
 - Person seeking intelligence
 - Either side of a Mad Magazine battle
 - Agent such as Susan Cooper
 - ___ vs. ___ (Mad strip)
 - Northern ___ apples
 - Intelligence collector
 - Source of unwanted bugs?
 - Job for many an action hero
 - Asset in a covert op
 - Plant with bugs, maybe
 - Bad person to confide in
 - Undercover operative
 - Harriet Tubman was one for the Union
 - Plant with bugs?
 - Ian Fleming figure
 - Someone who might use a fake passport
 - Many a "Black Bag" character
 - Asset with intel
 - Stealthy agent
 - Mole who might dig for dirt
 - Worker with a handler
 - Mission-driven individual?
 
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 - New York Times - February 23, 2025
 - New York Times - February 09, 2025
 
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