Answer to "Spillane's private eye" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word HAMMER , but the solution may also be MIKEHAMMER which is one of the most recent solution (2012 in Newsday).

Spillane's private eye crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
HAMMER	50 %	6
MIKEHAMMER	50 %	10

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Spillane's private eye

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• hammer
• tec
• gumshoe
• spade
• operative
• shamus
• sleuth
• tailing
• case
• detective
• eyes
• snoop

Crossword Answer definitions

HAMMER noun

1. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
2. The act of using a hammer to hit something}}
3. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
4. The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
5. In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
6. A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
7. The last stone in an end.
8. (frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
9. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
10. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.

HAMMER verb

1. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
3. To emphasize a point repeatedly.
4. To hit particularly hard.
5. To ride very fast.
6. To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
7. To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
8. To make high demands on (a system or service).
9. To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
10. To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
11. To have hard sex with

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result HAMMER

• Head hitter
• Criticize severely
• Framer's tool
• Carpenter's tool
• Spillane's private eye
• Word that can follow the ends of the answers to asterisked clues
• It hits the nail on the head
• Work (out) with effort, as an agreement
• Hard-boiled sleuth Mike
• Track-and-field missile

More clues leading to the result MIKEHAMMER

• Spillane sleuth
• Spillane gumshoe
• Spillane's private eye
• "I, the Jury" private EYE
• Spillane character.
• Spillane's hard-boiled hero.
• Tough-guy prototype.
• Spillane's slugging shamus
• Mickey Spillane film portrayal
• Spillane detective