Smell __; suspect trickery

The answer

ARAT

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ARAT answer page.

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ARAT

Every other clue in this collection answered by ARAT, most used first.

• "I smell ___!" - used 214 times, most recently in 2025
• Smell ___ - used 116 times, most recently in 2026
• Smell ___ (be suspicious) - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• What the suspicious smell - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Trapped like ___ - used 21 times, most recently in 2018
• "How now! ___?": Hamlet - used 20 times, most recently in 2020
• Smell ___ (suspect) - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Smell ___ (be leery) - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Smell ___ (suspect something) - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Smell ___ (be suspicious) (2 wds.) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Smell - ODOR, used 380 times
• Strong smell - ODOR, used 74 times
• Smell awful - REEK, used 57 times
• Bad smell - ODOR, used 43 times
• Unpleasant smell - ODOR, used 42 times
• Smell bad - REEK, used 38 times

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