Smelling a rat

The answer

LEERY

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LEERY answer page.

Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LEERY

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

• Suspicious - used 173 times, most recently in 2026
• Distrustful - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
• Skeptical - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
• Suspicious (of) - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Apprehensive - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Wary - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Guarded - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Cautious - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• On one's guard - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Wary: Slang. - used 10 times, most recently in 1966
• None too trusting - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Not fully trusting - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Like a doubting Thomas - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Mistrustful - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• A little suspicious - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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.

• Sharp-smelling - ACRID, used 31 times
• Foul-smelling - FETID, used 30 times
• Fruity-smelling compound - ESTER, used 24 times
• Pungent-smelling - ACRID, used 22 times
• Smelling ___ - SALTS, used 20 times
• Foul-smelling - ACRID, used 17 times

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