This group of answers for “Swindles” is drawn from crossword solutions that featured the same clue. They’ve been used by solvers before—and they can guide your next move here as well.
Possible Answers:
- FLEECES
- CONS
- BILKS
- RAMPS
- TRICKS
- DEFRAUDS
- FIDDLES
- SCAMS
- RIPSOFF
- GYPS
- GRIFTS
- RIPOFFS
- CHEATS
- DUPES
- TAKESIN
- BUNKOS
- REAMS
- STINGS
- CONSOLES
Synonyms and Definitions
FLEECES
- Synonyms: gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, shear, sheepskin, soak, surcharge, wool
CONS
- Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, convict, defraud, diddle, flimflam, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, hustle, inmate, learn, memorise, memorize, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, sting, swindle, victimize, yard bird, yardbird
BILKS
- Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, elude, evade, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart
RAMPS
- Synonyms: allium tricoccum, incline, rage, storm, wild leek
TRICKS
- 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
DEFRAUDS
- Synonyms: con
FIDDLES
- Synonyms: monkey, play, shirk, shrink from, tamper, tinker, toy, violin
SCAMS
- Synonyms: cozenage
GYPS
- Synonyms: genus gyps
CHEATS
- 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
DUPES
- Synonyms: befool, cod, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in, victim
STINGS
- Synonyms: bite, burn, insect bite, pang, prick, stick, stinging, twinge
CONSOLES
- Synonyms: cabinet, comfort, console table, solace, soothe