- SPY
- ___ Kids (2001 family-espionage film)
- Bugging sort?
- Creep (on)
- In movies, a female version will wear all black and sky-high heels - even though stilettos don't seem that practical to me in this profession
- Prefix with op or duck
- Le Carre character
- Mole
- Company man?
- Follett figure
- Investigate intensively
- Operative
- Secret agent
- Mata Hari, e.g.
- Mata Hari, for one
- Undercover agent
- One with a secret mission
- Double agent
- Julia Child, e.g., during World War II
- Certain le Carré character (and le Carré himself, once)
- Mad adversary
- Peep
- Hide behind a plant at a restaurant where your ex is eating, say
- Wire wearer, maybe
- Covert operative
- Smiley, e.g.
- The title character in the "Give Yourself Goosebumps" book "Secret Agent Grandma," e.g.
- Harriet Tubman, e.g., for the Union Army
- Operative word?
- Mole, e.g.
- Character in a trenchcoat and fedora, probably
- Fake passport carrier, likely
- Intel employee?
- Jason Bourne, for one
- Klaus Fuchs, e.g.
- MI6 trainee
- Man on a mission?
- One with a hidden camera pen
- One with numerous passports
- Salt, e.g.
- Sneak
- Stratego piece
- An American in Paris, only probably with a false name
- Intel collector
- One working under an assumed identity
- Unwanted plant
- A ___ in the House of Love (Anaïs Nin novel)
- False front participant
- One who is rarely themselves on the job
- One with numerous fake passports
- Agent
- Ludlum hero
- Do surveillance (on)
- Gather intelligence
- Mole, maybe
- Austin Powers, e.g.
- Someone under cover
- Bygone satire mag
- Catch sight of
- Prohias protagonist
- One may put a bug in your ear
- Caleb, for one
- Bond or Powers, e.g.
- James Bond or Austin Powers
- Acquire intelligence
- Intriguing fellow
- Fake-ID carrier, possibly
- Gather info surreptitiously
- Person who lies when asked "What do you do for a living?"
- Harriet the ___ (children's book)
- Le Carré's "A Perfect ___"
- Leader of a double life
- Plant, maybe
- Gain intelligence
- Glimpse
- 007, for one
- Plant that's rarely identified
- Part of a ring
- Soldier follower in a 1974 novel
- 42-Across figure
- Espionage figure
- Maxwell Smart, e.g.
- Nathan Hale, notably
- Peek through a keyhole
- Follett ferret
- Le Carré's Magnus Pym, for one
- Maxwell Smart, for one
- Cloak-and-dagger type
- Look through a keyhole
- Cloak-and-dagger figure
- Be a mole
- Bond or Powers
- Le Carré character
- Security threat
- U.N.C.L.E. employee
- Snoop
- Austin Powers, for one
- Flint or Helm, e.g.
- Intelligence agent
- Novel type
- 6-Down, for one
- Bond, for one
- James Bond, for one
- Mata Hari, notably
- Undercover worker
- George Smiley, e.g.
- Bond, for example
- Eavesdropper
- '80s-'90s "Separated at Birth?" monthly
- James Bond, e.g.
- One might need a cover
- Work under cover
- Office plant, at times?
- Wiretapper, maybe
- Agency employee, perhaps
- Bug user
- Look through keyholes
- One who may bug you
- Plant, perhaps
- Mole, perhaps
- One who might be recruited
- Person of intelligence?
- Bug planter, perhaps
- Be a voyeur, perhaps
- Fifth columnist
- Mole or shadow, perhaps
- State secret stealer
- Valerie Plame, notably
- Austin Powers: The ___ Who Shagged Me
- Double agent, e.g.
- Spectre extra
- Hari was one
- Intelligence seeker
- Undercover sort
- CIA employee
- Espionage agent
- Caleb was one
- Observe in secret
- Use binoculars, perhaps
- Sneak a peek
- Covert operator
- Engage in espionage
- Cold war figure
- Smart, for one
- Use a hidden camera, say
- One of two regular Mad magazine opponents
- Unwelcome plant?
- Observe covertly
- One with a code name, perhaps
- Thriller hero, often
- Wire wearer
- Nathan Hale, e.g.
- One with a cover
- Word before and after "vs." in a Mad feature
- Code user
- Le Carré hero, e.g.
- Secretly watch, with "on"
- Use a tap, perhaps
- Watch secretly
- Alias user
- One seeking intelligence
- Binoculars user
- Furtive sort
- Le Carré's Smiley, for one
- Many a character in TV's "The Americans"
- Plant gathering information
- Infiltrator
- Le Carré figure
- One eavesdropping, perhaps
- One of a pair of Mad adversaries
- One of two Mad rivals
- Tom Clancy figure
- Many a character in "The Americans"
- CIA operative
- James Bond is one
- 007, e.g.
- One of many in TV's "The Americans"
- One using bugs
- One with secrets to tell
- Seeker of intel
- MI6 agent
- Make like a mole
- Special Stratego piece
- Expert on bugs?
- Intel seeker
- One with a code name
- Word with glass or ware
- Harriet the __: kid-lit classic
- Stock thriller character
- View
- Hidden asset?
- Informer, maybe
- Abel's occupation
- Asset in a covert op
- Job for many an action hero
- Northern __ apples
- Notice
- '60s series, I ___
- CIA agent
- Spot
- Word with ring or master
- Northern __ (apple)
- Nose around
- Emulate 007
- Secret stealer
- Cosby's first prime-time role
- Hale, for one
- Intelligence gatherer
- See suddenly
- Do undercover work
- Government agent
- Mole, for one
- One undercover
- One wearing a wire, perhaps
- Secrets stealer
- Smiley or Smart
- Telephoto-lens user, perhaps
- Observe furtively
- Plant or mole
- Watch furtively
- Seek secrets
- Bug planter
- Clancy novel staple
- Get a look at
- James Bond, for example
- Keep watch
- Mole, by definition
- Covert agent
- Do surveillance
- Two-legged plant, perhaps
- Counter conclusion
- Intel accumulator
- Mole, for example
- One on an op
- Work covertly
- Intel gatherer
- One gathering intel
- Catch a glimpse of
- Keep watch (on)
- Undercover asset
- Underground worker
- ___ ring
- Observe on the sly
- Security breacher
- Accumulate intel
- Sight
- Master starter
- Observe unseen
- __-fi (literary genre)
- Defunct humor magazine
- Bugger, maybe
- Intelligencer
- Mole with secrets
- Northern ___ (apple variety)
- Only Stratego piece that can take a marshal
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, ___
- Bond, e.g.
- Only Stratego piece with a letter on it
- Powers, e.g.
- Black or white Mad character
- Lettered Stratego piece
- George Smiley, for one
- Mata Hari.
- Secret watcher.
- Discover.
- Hidden viewer.
- Snooper.
- Eavesdrop.
- See.
- Mata Hari was one.
- Member of G-2.
- F. B. I. target.
- Peeper.
- Northern ___, a winter apple.
- The ___, Cooper classic.
- Major John Andre, for instance.
- Make out.
- Northern ___.
- Perceive.
- Northern ___, winter apple.
- Scrutinize.
- Emissary.
- Northern ___, kind of apple.
- Watcher.
- Caleb's role.
- Undercover man.
- Current-type hero.
- Hero of certain adventure tales.
- Kind of glass.
- Perennial TV hero.
- Popular figure in fiction.
- Hero of many a tale.
- John André.
- André.
- Hero of many a movie.
- Cooper character
- Use a periscope
- Certain data-gatherer
- Northern, for one
- J. F. Cooper character
- Mail-drop user
- Watch stealthily
- Agent provocateur
- Hari, for one
- He "came in from the cold"
- Cooper's "The ___"
- Triple agent
- Hale or Hari
- One who "came in from the cold"
- Keep watch secretly
- Northern ___ (apple)
- Deighton's Needle, e.g.
- Kind of ring or glass
- K.G.B. man
- What's a Mata?
- Smiley was one
- Caleb, e.g.
- Casanova was one
- Hari or Hale
- Napoleon Solo, for one
- Cooper novel, with "The”
- Emulate Hari
- Hale or 007
- Rudolf Abel, e.g.
- Kind of satellite
- Le Carre figure
- Shadow, with "on"
- Snoop (on)
- Kind of catcher
- Scout
- Peek in (on)
- Le Carré staple
- Look in (on)
- Dangerous job
- Bug someone, e.g.
- Finder of secrets
- Good looker?
- Microfilmer, maybe
- One may bug you
- Seek intelligence
- Shadow, maybe
- Spotter
- Telephoto lens user, maybe
- Tail, maybe
- Hush-hush job
- Person with intelligence
- Person with a code name, maybe
- U-2 pilot, e.g.
- Alias type
- Cover girl, e.g.?
- With 5-Down, snooping aid
- Mission: Impossible figure
- 19-Down employee
- Invisible ink user
- Passer of secret documents
- Word repeated in Mad magazine's "___ vs. ___"
- Foe of 1-Across in Mad magazine
- Foe of 71-Across in Mad magazine
- Writer in cipher, maybe
- Many a bugger
- One who bugs people?
- Secret collector
- Stratego piece with a monocle
- What was Caleb in the Bible?
- 2015 Melissa McCarthy comedy
- Authority on bugs?
- Half of a classic Mad magazine feature
- Invasive plant
- Sleeper, maybe
- Busybody, maybe
- Nathan Hale, for the Colonies
- One with a phony passport, maybe
- Secret admirer?
- Bug catcher, maybe
- Double-O sort
- Nonnative plant?
- One wearing sunglasses, stereotypically
- Person using binoculars, maybe
- Person wearing a trench coat and sunglasses, stereotypically
- Someone with intelligence?
- Bug expert?
- Wiretapper, e.g.
- Do recon
- One who bugs another person?
- One with a handler
- Sleeper, perhaps
- Someone not likely to show off intelligence?
- Dangerous plant to have around?
- International ___ Museum (Washington, D.C., attraction)
- One lurking in the shadows
- Piece in Stratego
- Use a nanny cam, say
- ___-fi
- Monitor of a tap
- Northern ___ (curiously named apple variety)
- One doing inside work
- One role for Harriet Tubman in the Civil War
- One who's got the bug?
- Cloak-and-dagger sort
- Lead-in to ware
- One with an inside job
- Who might bug you?
- John le Carré figure
- Mole ... or a rat, maybe
- Mole that should definitely be removed?
- Word on either side of "vs."
- Do some snooping
- Intelligence collector
- Plant with bugs, maybe
- Source of unwanted bugs?
- ___ vs. ___ (Mad strip)
- Stratego piece (3)
- Washington D.C.'s International ___ Museum
- Mad antagonist
- Use a peephole, say
- Look through a peephole, perhaps
- Try to improve one's intelligence illegally, perhaps
- CIA worker
- CIA figure
- KGB figure
- CIA sort
- KGB worker
- Stealth song off "Morrison Hotel" (with "The")?
- Mole that catches bugs?
- Plant that catches bugs?
- Plant that's part of an underground network?
- Code holder, say
- Hanssen, say
- Le Carre title word
- Philby or Pollard
- John le Carre character, often
- Use a keyhole
- Edith Cavell, for one
- Kind of plant?
- Eavesdrop, maybe
- Type of drone or novel
- Caleb's job in Canaan
- I ___ with my little eye . . .
- Do some recon
- Melissa McCarthy secret agent movie
- Member of a ring
- Only Stratego piece that can capture the Marshal
- ___ balloon (type of flying object shot down by the U.S. in February, 2023)
- I _____ (Culp/Cosby groundbreaking show)
- Watch covertly
- I _____
- Place bugs or wires
- One of Smiley's people
- I ___ (classic TV show)
- And Moses sent them to ___ out the land of Canaan
- I ___ (Culp/Cosby TV show)
- I ___ (early Cosby show)
- The ___ Who Loved Me
- Agent of espionage
- Do private eye work
- Bug someone?
- Person handling bugs?
- Undercover infiltrator
- Work for the CIA
- Agent of 64-Across
- Be a secret watcher
- Collect sensitive material
- Gatherer of intelligence
- Mata Hari, i.e.
- Mole seeking intelligence
- Person bugging you?
- Person seeking intelligence?
- Do CIA work
- Gatherer of intel
- Human mole
- Do a mole's job
- Listening device user
- MI6 figure
- One has a cover but isn't an open book
- One may hide a camera
- Person who works with bugs?
- Black Widow, for one
- One may wear a wire
- ___ Kids (film series featuring secret agents)
- ___ vs. ___ (Mad comic strip)
- Espionage expert
- I ___ (road trip game)
- Intel worker?
- Person you shouldn't recognize?
- Either side of a Mad magazine battle
- Secretly watch
- Mole or plant
- Tailing expert
- Watch
- Double agent <P>e.g.
- Moe Berg for one
- Bond type
- I ____ : '60s TV fare
- Intelligence purveyor
- Sort of plant
- Cosby show I ____
- I ____
- Aldrich Ames, e.g.
- Occupation of 15 Across
- Spook
- Industrial fink
- Le Carre hero, e.g.
- Smart or Bond, e.g.
- Watch undercover
- Emulate a peeping Tom
- Man of intelligence?
- Seek intelligence, in a way
- Work undercover, in a way
- World traveler, perhaps
- Watch from the bushes
- Many a Tom Clancy character
- Seeker of secrets
- Agent with a fake passport, perhaps
- Bond or Bourne
- Bourne or Bond
- Jason Bourne, e.g.
- Action movie figure, perhaps
- Le Carre hero
- Intelligence agency asset
- One might pose as a diplomat
- Person with a fake passport, maybe
- Stealer of secrets
- Agent who might pose as a diplomat
- Do some espionage
- Double agent, for example
- Stratego piece with an "S" on it
- ___ Kids (2001 movie)
- Agent such as Susan Cooper
- Defunct magazine
- He'll bug you
- U-2 pilot
- Patriot Hale, for one
- One with a wire
- Valerie Plame, e.g.
- Powers up on the big screen, e.g.
- Infiltration expert
- One whose identity is often classified
- Expert on plants and bugs?
- Secretive one
- Secret trader
- Camp intruder
- Dead drop user
- Person with a cover
- Piece in a Stratego game
- Plant of a sort
- User of gadgets, maybe
- Plant in a government office, maybe
- Secret seeker
- Intelligence pro
- Eavesdrop, say
- One might have a cover
- Smart or Solo
- Wily watcher
- Eve in "Killing Eve," for one
- Many a John le Carré character
- Many a le Carré character
- Network of secret agents
- MI6 asset
- Plant bugs, e.g.
- Potentially harmful mole
