Clues for the word "FRAUD"
We've had 66 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 109 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on May 21, 2026.
Definition of fraud
- n. - Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
- n. - An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
- n. - A trap or snare.
Referring Clues
- Better Business Bureau subject
- Subject of an S.E.C. inquiry
- Illegal activity
- Whistle-blower's exposure
- Bunco squad's concern
- Criminal deception
- Super duper
- Dupery
- Businessman's crime
- Deceptive crime
- One skilled at taking in
- Bunco-squad concern
- Hoax
- Impostor
- Con artist's crime
- Charlatan
- Imposter
- Illegal trickery
- Criminal trickery
- Con game
- Flimflam
- Deceit
- Piece of trickery
- Counterfeit
- Scam
- Trick
- Swindler's crime
- Swindle
- Flimflammer's felony
- Mountebank
- A cheat
- Ponzi scheme, e.g.
- Bit of trickery
- Swindler
- Poseur
- Target of blue sky laws
- Deception
- Fake
- Businessperson's crime
- Madoff's offense
- Illegal deceit
- Fourflusher
- Security concern
- German woman beginning to detect criminal deception
- Union member translated duck's opening quack
- Deceit, especially financial
- Swindle German woman and daughter
- German woman finds Germany a deceiver
- German lady reveals her country's wrongdoing
- Crime brings one of her own to Germany
- Criminal deception of German woman and daughter
- Hustle
- Swindle revealed by German woman and daughter
- Deceitful practice
- Criminal deception of an artist in a bit of a fuddle
- White-collar crime
- Deliberate deceit
- Financial crime
- Forging a signature, e.g
- Credit card issue
- Crime of deception
- Identity theft, for one
- It's hot in Paris
- Phony
- Corporate crime
- This squad exists by chicanery!
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 21, 2026
- Daily Quick - August 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 12, 2024
- Daily American - October 03, 2024
- LA Times - September 15, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - August 11, 2024
- LA Times - July 16, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 08, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 16, 2024
- USA Today - February 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - February 11, 2024
- New York Times - January 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 06, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 31, 2023
- USA Today - October 16, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 01, 2023
- USA Today - July 21, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 10, 2023
- Family Time - June 05, 2023
- Family Time - April 24, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 07, 2023
- Daily American - October 03, 2022
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