Cloak-and-dagger sort

The answer

SPY

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPY answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SPY

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

• Secret agent - used 207 times, most recently in 2026
• Undercover agent - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Bond, for one - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Agent - used 47 times, most recently in 2015
• James Bond, for one - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• 007, for one - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• CIA operative - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Mole - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Mole, e.g. - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Stratego piece - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Snoop - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Operative - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Bond, e.g. - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• James Bond, e.g. - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Double agent - used 20 times, most recently in 2020
• Covert agent - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Catch sight of - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Cloak-and-dagger type - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Le Carré character - used 16 times, most recently in 2013
• Infiltrator - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Mata Hari, for one - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
• Security threat - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
• 007, e.g. - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Austin Powers, e.g. - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Espionage agent - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Mole, maybe - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• "Austin Powers: The ___ Who Shagged Me" - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Mole, for one - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Person with intelligence? - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Bug planter - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Double agent, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Many a character on "The Americans" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Plant, perhaps - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Cloak-and-dagger figure - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Intel collector - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Intel gatherer - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Intelligence agent - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Invasive plant? - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Undercover worker - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• Work undercover - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Austin Powers, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Be a mole - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Black or white Mad character - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• CIA employee - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Engage in espionage - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Follett figure - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Intelligence seeker - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of glass - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
• Secret stealer - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Watch covertly - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Wire wearer - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

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.

• To and ___ - FRO, used 341 times
• Sort - ILK, used 282 times
• And so on: Abbr. - ETC, used 238 times
• ___ and outs - INS, used 193 times
• Get-up-and-go - PEP, used 188 times
• Put two and two together - ADD, used 138 times

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