Crossword Clue: Elaborate deception
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Matching Crossword Puzzle Answers for "Elaborate deception"
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Possibly related crossword clues for "Elaborate deception"
Based on the answers listed above, we also found some clues that are possibly similar or related to Elaborate deception:
- 1869's Cardiff Giant, e.g.
- 1938 "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, for one
- Barnum's "Feejee Mermaid," e.g.
- Barnum's Fiji mermaid, for one
- April 1 event
- April 1 news story, maybe
- April 1 trick
- April 1st antic
- April 1st event
- April Fools' Day news story, sometimes
- Big scam
- Bigfoot photo, e.g.
- Attempted deception
- "Balloon Boy," for one
- Bamboozle
- Bamboozlement
- False claim
- Fraud
- Fraudulence
- Fraudulent event
- Dupe
- Dupery
- Dupe's downfall
- Hitler's diaries, e.g.
- Debunked thing
- Debunker's target
- Deceitful device
- Deception such as the Piltdown Man
- Deception
- Deceptive act
- Deceptive deed
- Deceptive trick
- Fast one
- Chain letters, usually
- Con game
- Con man's trick
- Con
- It can be spread by a doctored photograph
- Hoodwink
- Hornswoggle
- Elaborate April fool
- Elaborate deception
- Elaborate fake
- Elaborate falsehood
- Elaborate fraud
- Elaborate lie
- Elaborate prank
- Elaborate ruse
- It's a trick
- Cottingley Fairies, for one
- It's not for real
- It's perpetrated by a prankster
- Flimflam
- Canard
- Imposture
- Crop circles, e.g.
- Global warming, some say
- Good thing to check Snopes.com for
- Facebook privacy announcement, e.g.
- Fake story that might be discredited by Snopes.com
- Fake, such as Piltdown Man
- Fake
- Sting, for instance
- The 1938 broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" was one
- Publicity stunt, perhaps
- Manti Te'o's girlfriend, for one
- Like many a catfish relationship
- Many a P.T. Barnum exhibit
- Many an urban legend
- Stratagem
- The Cardiff Giant, for one
- The Cardiff Giant, notably
- Robin Davey band The ___
- Mare's nest
- Mare's-nest
- Sham
- Sham or scam
- Put-on
- Put on
- Put one over on
- The finding of a Virgin Mary-shaped gummy candy, e.g.
- Martian invasion report, e.g.
- The Hitler Diaries, e.g.
- Something intended to deceive
- Subject of a forwarded e-mail, often
- The performances of Milli Vanilli, essentially
- The Piltdown Man, e.g.
- The Piltdown Man, notably
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, e.g.
- Trick
- Trickster's deception
- Kurt Vonnegut's faux commencement address e-mail, e.g.
- "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, notably
- Mencken's history of the bathtub, e.g.
- Practical joke
- Practical joke, e.g.
- Prank
- Prankster's scam
- Milli Vanilli, famously
- Relative of fake news
- No mere prank
- Major prank
- Phony discovery, perhaps
- Like a famous Welles radio broadcast
- Piltdown man, e.g.
- Piltdown man, for one
- Piltdown man, notably
- Piltdown man, say
- Ruse
- Spam content, often
- Swindle
- Spoof
- Welles' Martian invasion broadcast, e.g.
- Welles' 'War of the Worlds,' e.g.
- Welles's "The War of the Worlds," e.g.
- Scam or sham
- Scam that might be debunked by snopes.com
- Scam
- UFO photo, perhaps
- What an unbelievable YouTube video might be
- Snopes subject
- Snopes.com subject
- Snow job
Recent Usage of Elaborate deception in Crossword Puzzles
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Here are all of the places we know of that have used Elaborate deception in their crossword puzzles recently:
- Newsday - Aug. 11, 2020
- New York Times - Nov. 6, 2019
- Daily Celebrity - Sept. 26, 2017
- Newsday - April 24, 2017
