| Detention in port | 17 |
| Detention facilities | 20 |
| Detention center with a questionable human rights record, briefly | 65 |
| Detention camp | 14 |
| Detention at British boarding schools | 37 |
| Detention | 9 |
| Detent | 6 |
| Detects, in a way | 17 |
| Detects subterfuge | 18 |
| Detects scents | 14 |
| Detects like a bloodhound | 25 |
| Detects a rat? | 14 |
| Detects | 7 |
| Detectors | 9 |
| Detector's quarry | 21 |
| Detector type | 13 |
| Detector target | 15 |
| Detector of some potentially dangerous waves | 44 |
| Detector of les odeurs | 22 |
| Detector detection, ostensibly | 30 |
| Detector detection | 18 |
| Detector at sea | 15 |
| Detector activator | 18 |
| Detectives, for short | 21 |
| Detectives, briefly | 19 |
| Detectives, at times | 20 |
| Detectives' work | 20 |
| Detectives' info, possibly | 30 |
| Detectives' helpers | 23 |
| Detectives' discoveries: Abbr. | 34 |
| Detectives' concerns | 24 |
| Detectives' board game | 26 |
| Detectives' aids | 20 |
| Detectives with their HQ in D.C. | 32 |
| Detectives say there is no such thing | 37 |
| Detectives look for them, briefly | 33 |
| Detectives hear a lot of them | 29 |
| Detectives for hire, for short | 30 |
| Detectives for hire | 19 |
| Detectives follow them | 22 |
| Detectives connect them | 23 |
| Detectives check them | 21 |
| Detectives assigned to unsolved mysteries? | 42 |
| Detectives | 10 |
| DetectiveÂ’s need | 20 |
| Detective-story pioneer | 23 |
| Detective-story Man | 19 |
| Detective-story creator | 23 |
| Detective-fiction name | 22 |
| Detective, slangily | 19 |
| Detective, on occasion | 22 |
| Detective, often | 16 |
| Detective, in slang | 19 |
| Detective, for one | 18 |
| Detective, essentially | 22 |
| Detective, at times | 19 |
| Detective's workload | 24 |
| Detective's work record | 27 |
| Detective's word | 20 |
| Detective's tool | 20 |
| Detective's skill | 21 |
| Detective's sixth sense | 27 |
| Detective's shout | 21 |
| Detective's question | 24 |
| Detective's quest | 21 |
| Detective's query | 21 |
| Detective's pronoun | 23 |
| Detective's pet in "The Thin Man" | 47 |
| Detective's needs | 21 |
| Detective's need | 20 |
| Detective's leads | 21 |
| Detective's lead | 20 |
| Detective's job concerning a personal online relationship? | 62 |
| Detective's job | 19 |
| Detective's illumination source, perhaps | 44 |
| Detective's follow-up list | 30 |
| Detective's find | 20 |
| Detective's facetious cliché | 35 |
| Detective's exclamation | 27 |
| Detective's duties | 22 |
| Detective's discovery | 25 |
| Detective's determination | 29 |
| Detective's destination | 27 |
| Detective's delight | 23 |
| Detective's cry | 19 |
| Detective's concern | 23 |
| Detective's coat, informally | 32 |
| Detective's assignments | 27 |
| Detective's assignment | 26 |
| Detective's aid | 19 |
| Detective ___ Wolfe | 19 |
| Detective writer Paretsky | 25 |
| Detective writer Earl ___ Biggers | 33 |
| Detective work, at times | 24 |
| Detective work | 14 |
| Detective Wolfe of fiction | 26 |
| Detective Wolfe and an emperor | 30 |
| Detective Wolfe | 15 |
| Detective with a number one son | 31 |
| Detective with a nose for crime fighting | 40 |