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Private ___ (detective)

Last seen in Universal Crossword August 23, 2021 Answers

The crossword clue "Private ___ (detective)" was featured in the Universal Crossword puzzle on August 23, 2021 and has been seen in crosswords before. We've compiled 109 possible answers from various sources. The leading candidate is EYE (3 letters), scoring a 99% match — the highest among all solutions we found.

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109 Other Potential Answers

99%
EYE
Private ___ (detective)
Universal Crossword · Aug 23, 2021
8%
SEXT
Message one may wish to open in private
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 6, 2026
8%
RANK
Corporal or private
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 8, 2026
8%
NERO
Fictional detective Wolfe
Universal Crossword · Apr 9, 2026
8%
ONALEAD
How a detective might work
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 6, 2025
8%
JET
Plane that may be private
Universal Crossword · Sep 8, 2025
8%
PLACEMENTEXAM
Requirement for many a private school, and an apt title for this puzzle
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 5, 2025
8%
NATE
Kid-lit boy detective __ the Great
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 25, 2025
8%
ENOLA
Teen detective ___ Holmes
Universal Crossword · Aug 25, 2025
8%
AREYOUALONE
"Can I share something private?"
Universal Crossword · Aug 16, 2025
8%
AUTOPSY
Exam in a detective story
Universal Crossword · Aug 11, 2025
8%
ELOPE
Complete a private merger?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 13, 2025
8%
ELVIS
Rock 'n' roll legend who named his private jet Lisa Marie
Universal Crossword · Apr 24, 2025
8%
MIL
Domain suffix for a private employer
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 23, 2025
8%
PDJAMES
Novelist who created the detective Adam Dalgliesh
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 4, 2025
8%
HOLMES
Literary detective Sherlock
Universal Crossword · Feb 19, 2025
8%
MAGNUMPI
TV series that starred Tom Selleck as a detective
Universal Crossword · Jan 28, 2025
8%
STEELE
TV detective Remington
Eugene Sheffer Crossword · Jan 13, 2025
8%
CESSNAS
Some private planes
Premier Sunday Crossword · Dec 1, 2024
8%
TREAD
Sole clue for a detective?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 30, 2024
8%
CASE
Job for a detective
Universal Crossword · Sep 29, 2024
8%
BCC
Keep a guest list private, maybe
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 18, 2024
8%
CRIMEWRITER
Author of detective stories
Thomas Joseph Crossword · Aug 6, 2024
8%
LEAR
Big name in private jets
Premier Sunday Crossword · Feb 18, 2024
8%
NOSIR
Denial from a private
Universal Crossword · Jan 30, 2024
8%
CECIL
Poet Day-Lewis who wrote the Nigel Strangeways detective novels as Nicholas Blake
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 29, 2023
8%
GATED
Like some private communities
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 12, 2023
8%
ATEASE
Words for private relaxation?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 26, 2023
8%
NDAS
"Keep this private" docs
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 13, 2023
8%
SHADOWANDTELL
*Job description for a private eye?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 7, 2023
8%
TAKEASIDE
Have a private word with
Thomas Joseph Crossword · Jun 7, 2023
8%
WOLFE
Fictional detective who was born in Montenegro
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 18, 2023
8%
CAM
__ Jansen: kid-lit detective with a photographic memory
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 3, 2023
8%
ROSA
"Brooklyn Nine-Nine" detective Diaz
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 17, 2023
8%
THESECRETGRANDE
... about the private life of singer Ariana?
Universal Crossword · Feb 1, 2023
8%
INON
Part of, as a private joke
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 13, 2022
8%
LEROY
First name of boy detective Encyclopedia Brown
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 4, 2022
8%
TRACKSHOES
Footwear for a private eye?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 26, 2022
8%
SAMSPADE
Dashiell Hammett detective
Premier Sunday Crossword · Nov 6, 2022
8%
POIROT
"Murder on the Orient Express" detective Hercule
Universal Crossword · Nov 6, 2022
8%
JANE
Homicide detective Rizzoli of "Rizzoli & Isles"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 5, 2022
8%
AIRHAMMERS
Broadcast episodes of a Stacy Keach detective series?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Oct 16, 2022
8%
SECRETCODE
Encryption for private messages
LA Times Daily Crossword · Oct 11, 2022
8%
HOTMIC
Device that may catch a private remark
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 4, 2022
8%
PUBLICLIFE
It excludes private social interactions
Universal Crossword · Jun 25, 2022
8%
DIAZ
"Brooklyn Nine-Nine" detective Rosa
Universal Crossword · Jun 16, 2022
8%
INSPECTORGADGET
Cyborg detective of TV and film
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 26, 2022
8%
KNOCKOUTGAS
Incapacitating agent of pulp detective and sci-fi novels ... and a hint to solving this puzzle's starred clues
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 4, 2022
8%
ENLISTS
Starts private work?
Universal Crossword · Feb 18, 2022
8%
BOSCH
Titus Welliver detective series
Universal Crossword · Jan 25, 2022
8%
CESSNA
Big name in private planes
Universal Crossword · Dec 11, 2021
8%
BARETTA
Title detective of 1970s TV
Premier Sunday Crossword · Nov 28, 2021
8%
YOURAISEMEUP
What the penthouse dweller said to the private elevator?
Universal Crossword · Nov 28, 2021
8%
OPENLY
Not in private
Premier Sunday Crossword · Jul 25, 2021
8%
NGAIO
Marsh of detective fiction
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 27, 2021
8%
HUNCH
A detective may act on one
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 21, 2021
8%
PUBLIC
Not private
Thomas Joseph Crossword · Dec 31, 2020
8%
ACEVENTURA
Animal detective of film
Universal Crossword · Dec 25, 2020
8%
THIRDAMENDMENT
It restricts peacetime quartering of soldiers in private homes
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 26, 2020
8%
CHEE
Tony Hillerman detective Jim
LA Times Daily Crossword · Oct 28, 2020
8%
LEAK
Fail to be kept private
LA Times Daily Crossword · Oct 11, 2020
8%
FOYLE
British detective played by Michael Kitchen
LA Times Daily Crossword · Oct 7, 2020
8%
IANKS
General and private
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 23, 2020
8%
LORD
Title for fictional detective Peter Wimsey
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 31, 2020
8%
PIKACHU
Title 2019 PokŽmon film detective
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 9, 2020
8%
MARLOWE
"The Big Sleep" private eye
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 11, 2020
8%
CARMEN
Fictional detective Sandiego
Universal Crossword · Mar 6, 2020
8%
DROPSOFFTHEGRID
Opts for a more private life, or a feature of 16-, 27- and 42-Across?
Universal Crossword · Jan 6, 2020
8%
KLUTE
1971 title detective
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 31, 2019
8%
TIBBS
"In the Heat of the Night" detective
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 3, 2019
8%
TAKESALESSON
Works with one's private tutor, say
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 4, 2019
8%
LANAI
Mostly private Hawaiian island
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 14, 2019
8%
PERK
Exec's private jet, say
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 11, 2019
8%
REE
Mr. —! (old detective game)
Premier Sunday Crossword · Apr 28, 2019
8%
ETON
"The most private of private schools": Hugh Laurie
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 22, 2019
8%
TUTEE
One getting private instruction
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 5, 2019
8%
SECTOR
Word with public or private
Eugene Sheffer Crossword · Dec 5, 2018
8%
OFFMIKE
Like many announcers' private side comments
Premier Sunday Crossword · Dec 2, 2018
8%
FAITHBASED
Like some private school curricula
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 11, 2018
8%
ARSENE
Fictional detective Lupin
Premier Sunday Crossword · Jul 22, 2018
8%
ASIDE
Where one may be taken for a private word
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 30, 2018
8%
MESS
Place for private dining?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 17, 2018
1%
DMED
Chatted privately online, for short
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 25, 2026
1%
AWORD
"May I speak with you privately?"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 20, 2026
1%
BCCS
Keeps posted privately
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 8, 2026
1%
TUTOR
Teach privately
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 4, 2026
1%
SHOEPRINTS
They help detectives get on the right tracks
Universal Crossword · Dec 21, 2025
1%
ONATIP
How detectives might act
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 15, 2025
1%
DMS
Contacts privately on Insta
Universal Crossword · Feb 25, 2025
1%
BESTCASESCENARIOS
Quality of good detectives?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 26, 2025
1%
PLAINCLOTHES
Like detectives sporting civvies
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 2, 2024
1%
CASES
What epidemiologists and detectives study
Universal Crossword · Nov 12, 2024
1%
DMME
"Reach out privately," online
Universal Crossword · Sep 16, 2024
1%
DMSAREOPEN
"Feel free to contact me privately on social"
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 4, 2024
1%
PIDAYCELEBRATION
Big bash honoring detectives?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 12, 2024
1%
TIPS
Pieces of info for detectives
Universal Crossword · Jul 18, 2023
1%
ORDERS
Servers and privates take them
Universal Crossword · Mar 10, 2023
1%
TRENCH
___ coat (detective's garment)
Universal Crossword · Dec 21, 2022
1%
KIDD
17th-century privateer
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 5, 2021
1%
WHISPERNETWORKS
Channels of information that women share privately
Universal Crossword · Sep 28, 2021
1%
CSIS
Forensic detectives, for short
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 9, 2021
1%
PROOF
Object of a detective's quest
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 21, 2020
1%
WHOKILLED
With 59-Across, old English nursery rhyme being investigated by the detectives in this puzzle
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 24, 2020
1%
INSP
Brit. detective's rank
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 3, 2020
1%
TUTORED
Instructed privately
Eugene Sheffer Crossword · May 2, 2020
1%
INC
__ 5000: annual list of the fastest-growing privately held companies
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 22, 2020
1%
HARDBOILED
Like some eggs and detectives
Universal Crossword · Jan 28, 2020
1%
SPECIALAGENTS
*Some are detectives (see letters 9-6)
Universal Crossword · Dec 18, 2019
1%
SEEALONE
Meet with privately
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 10, 2018

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How many possible solutions does "Private ___ (detective)" have?
We found 1 exact solution and 109 total potential answers including similar clues. The most likely answer is EYE (3 letters).
What is the best answer for "Private ___ (detective)"?
The best answer for "Private ___ (detective)" is EYE with 3 letters. This answer has a 99% confidence rating based on our database of crossword solutions.
Where has "Private ___ (detective)" been used as a crossword clue?
This clue has appeared 1 time in our database. It has been featured in Universal Crossword. It was last seen in the Universal Crossword on August 23, 2021.
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