Sleuth, in old slang

The answer

TEC

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 5 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
• Gumshoe, for short - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• 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
• Hawkshaw - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Old-time gumshoe - 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.

• Old French coin - ECU, used 181 times
• Old hand - PRO, used 166 times
• Old French coin - SOU, used 132 times
• Old card game - LOO, used 112 times
• Old English letter - EDH, used 88 times
• Old auto - REO, used 76 times

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