Counterfeit
Crossword Clue and Answers

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This clue in was most recently seen in the wild in Evening Standard Easy Crossword.

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Publications

Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Wednesday, 25 Aug 2021
Irish Independent - Simple - Saturday, 7 Aug 2021
Irish Independent - Simple - Tuesday, 16 Mar 2021
The Sun Cryptic - Wednesday, 20 Jan 2021
Irish Independent - Simple - Saturday, 13 Jun 2020
The Guardian Quick - Wednesday, 17 Oct 2018
The Guardian Speedy - Sunday, 20 May 2018
The Guardian Speedy - Sunday, 13 Mar 2016

Crossword Answers

3 letters

BAD
Nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"

DUD
An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"

4 letters

FAKE
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player

SHAM
Something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

5 letters

PHONY
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

BOGUS
Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

FORGE
Furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping

SNIDE
Expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one"

FALSE
Deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"

6 letters

FORGED
Reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill"

PSEUDO

PHONEY
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

PSEUDO
A person who makes deceitful pretenses

ERSATZ
Artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "substitute coffee"

7 letters

IMITATE
Appear like, as in behavior or appearance; "Life imitate art"

FALSIFY
Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

FORGERY
Criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

BOOTLEG
The part of a boot above the instep

8 letters

SPURIOUS
Plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"

9 letters

IMITATIVE
Not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

IMITATION
Something copied or derived from an original

10 letters

FRAUDULENT
Intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"