Clues for the word "FAKE"
We've had 65 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 173 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on February 17, 2026.
Definition of fake
- n. - One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
- v. t. - To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
- v. t. - To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
- v. t. - To make; to construct; to do.
- v. t. - To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
- n. - A trick; a swindle.
Referring Clues
- Like some furs
- Mountebank
- Faux
- Counterfeit
- False move
- Sham
- Deceptive play
- Like a flea-market Gucci, probably
- Impostor
- Simulate
- Play possum or cry wolf
- Quack
- Imitation
- Phony
- Gridiron move
- Ersatz
- Knockoff
- Feign
- Charlatan
- Bogus
- Cry wolf or play possum
- Not the real McCoy
- Embarrassment for a curator
- Pretend
- With 24-Across, bluff
- What some consider the 38-Across to be
- Pretend shot
- Handoff that isn't
- Superficial
- Museum embarrassment
- Certain "Antiques Roadshow" discovery
- Forgery
- Pseudo
- Like some lashes and tans
- Like knockoff goods
- Not genuine
- Clifford Irving's "Autobiography of Howard Hughes," e.g.
- Not real
- Art expert's discovery
- With 66-Across, what might prompt an exclamation of disbelief
- Hoops move
- Not bona fide
- Make-believe
- Not authentic
- Seether "___ It"
- Some pop star personas
- Red Jumpsuit Apparatus "Don't You ___ It"
- Phoney
- Doctor cut hand shaving
- Made of paste, say
- Phoney dope "safe" - knew that must be wrong
- Rolex bought on the street, probably
- Word before news or fur
- Bona fide? No
- Street vendor's Gucci, most likely
- Like many Rolex watches sold on the street
- Embarrassment for an art curator
- Like an orange tan, say
- Art buyer's concern
- The Piltdown Man, notably
- Like C.G.I.
- Like bot accounts on social media
- Expert's discovery
- Like some plants that don't need watering
- Art world fraud
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - February 17, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 04, 2025
- Daily American - July 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 01, 2025
- LA Times - June 08, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 05, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 03, 2025
- USA Today - February 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 30, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - December 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 07, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 19, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 05, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - July 31, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - June 22, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 16, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 01, 2024
- Daily American - May 01, 2024
- USA Today - April 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 22, 2024
- LA Times - March 05, 2024
- LA Times - March 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 22, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - January 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 02, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 12, 2023
- Daily American - July 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - June 14, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - June 13, 2023
- And in 143 more crossword puzzles...