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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

GYP
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

GIP
Deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

4 letters

ROOK
Common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow

BRIO
Quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous

TAKE
Engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

BILK
Escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"

SCAM
A fraudulent business scheme

DUPE
A person who is tricked or swindled

RUSE
A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

ANTI
A person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.); "the antis smelled victory after a long battle"

HOAX
Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

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

MOTO

AMOR
(Roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of Greek Eros

5 letters

CHEAT
The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"

LIETO

LIETO

GRIFT

TRICK
(card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner

MINUS
An arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"

LIFER
A prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment

STUDY
Preliminary drawing for later elaboration; "he made several studies before starting to paint"

LEARN
Be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam"

MULCT
Money extracted as a penalty

STING
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

BUNCO
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

BUNKO
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

FELON
Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

6 letters

HUSTLE
A rapid active commotion

DIDDLE
Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"

NOBBLE
Take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"

FLEECE
A soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing

ACEOUT

INMATE
A patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated

ENTRAP
Catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes"

RIPOFF
Deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"

ARTIST
A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

7 letters

SWINDLE
The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"

SNOWJOB
A long and elaborate misrepresentation

AGAINST

OPPOSED
Being in opposition or having an opponent; "two bitterly opposed schools of thought"

DECEIVE
Be false to; be dishonest with

DEFRAUD
Deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

CONVICT
A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

CONGAME
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

8 letters

YARDBIRD
A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

HOODWINK
Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"

DRAWBACK
Use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

DOWNSIDE
A negative aspect of something that is generally positive; "there is a downside even to motherhood"

MEMORISE
Commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?"

MEMORIZE
Commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?"

OPPOSING
Characterized by active hostility; "opponent (or opposing) armies"

YARDBIRD

PRISONER
A person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war

FLIMFLAM
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

JAILBIRD
A criminal who has been jailed repeatedly

9 letters

OPPOSEDTO

OPPOSEDTO

VICTIMIZE
Punish unjustly

BAMBOOZLE
Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"

GOLDBRICK
Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless

BUNKOGAME
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

BUNCOGAME
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

10 letters

THIMBLERIG
A swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under

PIGEONDROP

PIGEONDROP

11 letters

OLDARMYGAME

PONZISCHEME

OLDARMYGAME

HORNSWOGGLE
Deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

SHORTCHANGE

12 letters

DISADVANTAGE
The quality of having an inferior or less favorable position

PRISONINMATE

14 letters

PRISONRESIDENT

PRISONRESIDENT

CONFIDENCEGAME
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

15 letters

CONFIDENCETRICK
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property