We’ve prepared these answers for “Pretense” based on how similar clues have been solved across well-known puzzles, giving you a set of options that have been accepted in real crossword use.
Answers:
- FACADE
- GUISE
- CHARADE
- ACT
- SHAM
- SHOW
- PUTON
- AIRS
- POSE
- AIR
Synonyms and Definitions
FACADE
- Synonyms: frontage, frontal, window dressing
GUISE
- Synonyms: pretence, pretext
CHARADE
- Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty
ACT
- Synonyms: act as, behave, bit, deed, dissemble, do, enactment, human action, human activity, move, number, play, playact, pretend, represent, roleplay, routine, turn, work
SHAM
- Synonyms: affect, assume, assumed, fake, faker, false, feign, fictitious, fictive, fraud, imposter, impostor, postiche, pretended, pretender, pseud, pseudo, put on, role player, shammer, simulate
SHOW
- Synonyms: appearance, bear witness, demo, demonstrate, depict, designate, display, establish, evidence, evince, exhibit, express, indicate, picture, point, present, prove, read, record, register, render, shew, show up, testify, usher
AIRS
- Synonyms: aerate, air out, air travel, airwave, atmosphere, aura, aviation, bare, beam, breeze, broadcast, gentle wind, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, pose, publicise, publicize, send, strain, transmit, tune, vent, ventilate, zephyr
POSE
- Synonyms: affectation, affectedness, airs, amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, impersonate, lay, mannerism, model, mystify, nonplus, perplex, personate, place, position, posture, put, puzzle, set, sit, stick, stupefy, vex