Police man?

The answer

STING

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for STING

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

• Smart - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Police trap - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Bee's attack - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Con game - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Undercover operation - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Bee attack - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Scorpion attack - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Bee bite - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Jellyfish attack - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Bee's defense - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Beekeeper's danger - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Police operation - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Wasp attack - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Police chief? - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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• "___ man with seven wives" - IMETA, used 43 times
• Mechanical man - ROBOT, used 39 times

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