Catches, as a criminal

The answer

NABS

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

Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NABS

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

• Collars - used 95 times, most recently in 2025
• Arrests - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
• Captures - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Apprehends - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Catches - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Catches red-handed - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Catches in the act - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Seizes - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Snatches - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Catches, as a crook - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Picks up - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Takes into custody - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Pinches - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Grabs - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Slaps the cuffs on - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Puts the collar on - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Hauls in - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Runs in - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Catches some rays - TANS, used 57 times
• Catches sight of - SEES, used 33 times
• Catches a glimpse of - SEES, used 30 times
• Catches on to - GETS, used 28 times
• Catches some z's - NAPS, used 25 times
• Criminal, to cops - PERP, used 24 times

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