To support your progress on “Swindle”, this list includes answers seen in puzzles where that same clue wording was featured and resolved using the entries provided here.
Likely Answers:
- BILK
- SCAM
- CON
- DEFRAUD
- CHEAT
- GRIFT
- DUPE
- TRICK
- FRAUDULENCE
- BUNKO
- RIPOFF
- TAKEIN
- FLEECE
- FIDDLE
- FRAUD
- RAMP
- EUCHRE
- GAZUMP
- CONTRICK
- NOBBLE
Synonyms and Definitions
BILK
- Synonyms: baffle, cross, elude, evade, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart
SCAM
- Synonyms: bunco, con, cozenage, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, short-change, victimize
CON
- Synonyms: bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, convict, flimflam, hustle, inmate, learn, memorise, memorize, scam, sting, yard bird, yardbird
- Definition: a disagreement against a suggested plan
CHEAT
- Synonyms: bearded darnel, beguiler, betray, bromus secalinus, cheat on, cheater, cheating, chess, chicane, chisel, chouse, cuckold, darnel, deceiver, jockey, lolium temulentum, rig, rip off, screw, shaft, slicker, tare, trickster, wander
DUPE
- Synonyms: befool, cod, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in, victim
- Definition: an individual who is deceived or cheated
TRICK
- Synonyms: antic, caper, conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, fast one, fob, fox, illusion, john, joke, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, prank, pull a fast one on, put-on, thaumaturgy, whoremaster, whoremonger
- Definition: an action or tool that is sly or dishonest
FRAUDULENCE
- Synonyms: deceit, dupery, duplicity, fraud, hoax, humbug
FLEECE
- Synonyms: gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, shear, sheepskin, soak, surcharge, wool
FIDDLE
- Synonyms: monkey, play, shirk, shrink from, tamper, tinker, toy, violin
FRAUD
- Synonyms: fake, faker, fraudulence, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer
RAMP
- Synonyms: allium tricoccum, incline, rage, storm, wild leek
EUCHRE
- Synonyms: five hundred
GAZUMP
- Synonyms: fleece
NOBBLE
- Synonyms: abduct, abstract, cabbage, filch, kidnap, lift, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, snatch, sneak, swipe
These answers also appear in the following pages:
- SCAM also appears as an answer in Deception crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 13 letters.
- CON also appears as an answer in Take in crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 letters.
- FIDDLE also appears as an answer in Stringed instrument crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 letters.
- EUCHRE also appears as an answer in Card game crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 letters.