Gumshoe, in hard-boiled fiction Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a police officer who investigates crimes

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

HARD-BOILED (adjective)
1. tough and callous by virtue of experience
2. used of persons; emotionally hardened
FICTION (noun)
1. a deliberately false or improbable account
2. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

More WSJ Crossword (12/21/2024) Answers

Across

1. Bluster

5. Briefly

12. Pulse quickeners

18. Kuwait’s Mishal, e.g.

19. Jumbled

20. Having a good pedigree

22. Jargon used by Tour de France fans?

24. Talk of Torino

25. Diva’s display

26. Durango daddy

27. “Hamilton” Tony winner Leslie ___ Jr.

28. 'For example . . .'

29. Frisky

31. But, in Latin

32. Play reviewer

33. Hotel laundry room sight

35. SFO-to-LAX heading

38. Stone’s climb from TV commercials to “Casino” fame?

41. Drawing room

44. Fall preceder

45. Grow narrower

46. Have the sense that you’re falling over?

50. Thomas Gray’s “The Bard,” e.g.

51. Harshly criticize

52. Cloverleaf feature

53. Reward the actors

55. "Naughty" and "Nice," e.g.

59. “Analyze This” director Harold

60. Laggard’s cry

62. Jct. parts

63. Lennon’s love

65. Surrounded by

66. Round region surrounding a cathedral?

69. Mattress choice

70. Longing

71. Angled pipe

72. Very little

73. Gambler’s markers

74. Surveyed skeevily

78. Location

79. It may involve hand-holding

80. “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” director Howard

81. Channels 14 and up, on old TVs

83. Heat lamp for poultry farm hatchlings?

85. Uncomplaining

87. Signing, perhaps

89. Garden pests

90. Purina exec in charge of livestock products?

93. Elliott of 1989’s “Prancer”

94. Miss at a hoedown

97. Baffled

98. Pontiac in a 1964 hit song

99. Bar topic

101. Player’s contract stipulation

104. Play favorites, perhaps

105. Wood’s counterpart

106. Topper for a 56-Down

108. Fail to meet at the planned time

109. Fatalistic cry

112. Ones taking sabbaticals with no game plan?

114. Shocking scandals

115. Like contraband

116. Ending akin to -trix and -ette

117. Made the coffee

118. Blot on the landscape

119. Miss in the Highlands

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Down

1. Renaissance fiddles

2. Peruvian pals

3. Kidman who debuted in 1983’s “Bush Christmas”

4. 'Have a taste'

5. Outmoded classroom visual aid

6. “You’re a mean ___, Mr. Grinch”

7. Grating noise

8. Oscar-awarding org.

9. Paging device

10. Forceful words after “There!”

11. Scolding sound

12. Begin a journey

13. Quahog or geoduck

14. “...and may ___ your Christmases be white”

15. Cleanup hitter’s goal

16. Proof of fallibility

17. Cotton from Arkansas, e.g.

20. Like a good target for a pass

21. Ranking member

23. Long-running CBS franchise

27. “Potatoes done perfect” brand

30. “Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe ___ to make the season bright”

33. Burden for Marley’s ghost

34. “___ Holidays!”

37. Black-and-white

39. Hit show letters

40. Walked boldly

41. Scotch Tape dispenser feature

42. Bank lobby array

43. Thing of the past

46. Sudden incursion

47. Canine coat

48. Kingly fur

49. Piece of information

54. Dogs with corded coats

56. Christmas decoration

57. Groundskeeper’s chore

58. Rat

60. NHL team based in Saint Paul

61. Financial crisis

64. Beginning

66. Squeeze together?

67. Hollywood’s Negga and Wilson

68. Oktoberfest souvenirs

69. Massenet opera

71. New symphony of 1804

73. Alcatraz unit

75. Undermine

76. Book reviewers

77. Charlize of “Reindeer Games”

79. Vehicle for dashing through the snow

82. Dad, sis, bro, etc.

84. James of Elf

85. “A round for everybody!”

86. Having a will

88. Bad way to be accused

90. One-named model from Milan

91. "You're absolutely right"

92. Christmas, in Cremona

94. Lead ore

95. Adds tinsel to, e.g.

96. Items in some frames

100. They crash and break

102. Crayola color

103. Supergiant in Orion

105. Bus Stop playwright

107. ___ Park (Queens neighborhood)

110. Boxer warning

111. Bourbon cask material

112. Commit perjury

113. Realm for Mars

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