Gumshoe, for short
The crossword clue "Gumshoe, for short" is answered by TEC, a 3-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TEC
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TEC answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TEC
Every other clue in this collection answered by TEC, most used first.
- Gumshoe - used 169 times, most recently in 2026
- Private eye - used 52 times, most recently in 2025
- Sleuth - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
- Shamus - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- P.I. - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Private eye, slangily - used 19 times, most recently in 2018
- Dick - used 18 times, most recently in 2012
- Sleuth, for short - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
- Pulp fiction gumshoe - used 12 times, most recently in 2013
- Sleuth, slangily - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Gumshoe, briefly - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- Sleuth, in slang - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- PI - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Sleuth, informally - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Sleuth: Slang. - used 8 times, most recently in 1959
- Sleuth, in old slang - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Hawkshaw - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Old-time gumshoe - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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