- SPIES
- Moles or plants, maybe
- 86 and 99, in "Get Smart"
- Caleb and Joshua
- Secret agents
- Julia Child and Austin Powers, e.g.
- Gathers intelligence
- Cover group?
- Some moles
- Plants from another country, maybe
- Their work is secretive
- Fleming characters
- Bug specialists?
- Prohias' adversaries
- Mad adversaries
- Prohias's adversaries
- Le Carre characters
- Many John le Carré characters
- Perpetrators of black-bag jobs
- Figures in mystery writing
- Mad figures
- Some dumpster divers
- Kid lit's Harriet and others
- 007 and others
- Mata Hari et al.
- Most "Get Smart" characters
- This puzzle's theme involves fictional ones
- Spooks
- Some spooks
- Secret observers
- They gather intelligence
- Austin Powers and Johnny English
- Smiley's people?
- CIA employees
- Operatives
- Bond's cohorts
- Agents
- Moles, maybe
- Spots
- Bond and Bourne
- Nathan Hale and others
- Notices
- Undercover agents
- Some plants
- Counterintelligence targets
- Furtive sorts
- Infiltrators
- Bond and others
- Covert agents
- Seekers of intel
- Fleming subjects
- Professionals who might bug people
- Moles, e.g.
- CIA agents
- Catches sight of
- Hale and Hari
- M's subordinates
- Cloak-and-dagger types
- Le Carré characters
- Moles, for example
- Works in intelligence
- Parts of some rings
- Secret seekers
- Plants or moles
- Intelligence crew
- Undercover operatives
- Seekers of secrets
- Eavesdropping pros
- They often have covers
- J. Edgar Hoover's prey.
- Cloak and dagger men.
- F. B. I. targets.
- Fuchs, Gold, etc.
- Targets of the F. B. I.
- Northern ___, winter apples.
- Intriguing characters.
- Northern ___ (apples).
- Gains sight of.
- Perceives.
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, for example.
- Keeps watch.
- Front-page figures.
- Heroes of current fiction.
- Acts like Caleb
- 007, et al.
- Current heroes, in fact or fiction.
- Snoops.
- Hari et al.
- Snoopers
- Mata Hari, etc.
- High-risk workers
- Secretive ones
- Uses binoculars
- Certain informers
- Hari and Hale
- Undercover men
- Double agents
- Triple agents
- Some are moles
- Some K.G.B. men
- People of intelligence
- Unfriendly observers
- Certain moles
- Secret passers
- André and Hari
- Sometimes they get the hang of it
- 1928 Fritz Lang thriller
- Shadows
- People who aren't what they seem
- Those seeking intelligence
- Uses a tap, perhaps
- Black-clad and white-clad Mad adversaries
- Black and white Mad magazine figures
- Fears of some paranoiacs
- They may work for both sides
- Some "Bourne" film characters
- Secret collectors
- John le Carré heroes
- People who might bug others
- Secret traders
- They may bug you
- CIA types
- Kim Philby and colleagues
- Ring members
- Philby and Bond
- The Bureau or "The Americans" roles
- Watches discreetly
- Surreptitious types
- Some Ian Fleming characters
- Theme of this puzzle
- Intelligence operatives
- Seekers of intelligence?
- Agents 86 and 99, in "Get Smart"
- Bond and Bourne, for two
- What human moles are
- Espionage figures
- Intel collectors
- Covert operatives
- Workers who want to go unnoticed?
- Deep fakes?
- Invasive plants?
- Plants a bug, say
- Moles
- Peeping Toms
- Sneaks peeks
- Secretly watches
- Some enemies of the state
- They know things you don't think they know
- They want to gain intelligence
- Moles, perhaps
- Cloak-and-dagger sorts
- Intel seekers
- *Intelligence gatherers
- They seek secrets
- Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable, for example
- Moles seeking intel
- Certain agents
- Seeks secrets
- U-2 fliers
- Cloak-and-dagger group
- Uses a keyhole, perhaps
- Ones seeking intelligence
- Cloak-and-dagger people
- Some Stratego pieces
- Dead drop users
- Visitors of a dead drop
