The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CONS , but the solution may also be DUPES which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Bamboozles crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CONS | 50 % | 4 |
| SNOWS | 15 % | 5 |
| SNOOKERS | 7 % | 8 |
| LIESTO | 4 % | 6 |
| MISLEADS | 4 % | 8 |
| DUPES | 4 % | 5 |
| HAS | 2 % | 3 |
| SCAMS | 2 % | 5 |
| ROOKS | 2 % | 5 |
| PULLRICKON | 2 % | 10 |
| DELUDES | 2 % | 7 |
| ROPESIN | 2 % | 7 |
| TRICKS | 2 % | 6 |
Why may CONS be the right solution?
"CONS" is the right solution because "bamboozles" is a synonym for deceives or tricks, which are actions commonly associated with the term "cons," short for "confidence tricks."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Bamboozles
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lead by the nose
- hoodwink
- snow
- play false
- misleads
- hoodwinks
- bewitches
- dazzles
- enamour
- outwitted
- mesmerising
- flummoxes
Crossword Answer definitions
CONS noun- A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
- (abbreviation) conservative
- A convicted criminal, a convict.
- A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
- An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.
- The conversion of part of a building.
- A data structure in LISP that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.
- To obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.
- To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
- To know, understand, acknowledge.
- To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
- To direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer (especially through a channel, etc, rather than steer a compass direction).
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result CONS
- Bamboozles
- Time servers
- Negatives
- Yardbirds
- Swindles
- Puts one over on
- Takes for a ride
- Pen pals?
- Pen men
- Potential problems
More clues leading to the result SNOWS
- "The ____ of Kilimanjaro"
- Hemingway's "The ____ of Kilimanjaro"
- __ under (overwhelms)
- "The __ of Kilimanjaro"
- Cons
- Falls in flakes
- Plays for a sucker
- Winter falls
- "The ___ of Kilimanjaro"
- Pulls a fast one on
More clues leading to the result SNOOKERS
More clues leading to the result LIESTO
- Deceives
- Misleads, in a way
- Is dishonest with, in a way
- Remains stationary, as a ship
- Holds still, at sea
- More than misinforms
- Misinforms
- Stays still, nautically
- Misleads
- Isn't straight with
More clues leading to the result MISLEADS
- Hornswoggles
- Hoodwinks
- Deceives
- Deceives.
- Bamboozles
- Is devious
- Deludes
- Isn't completely honest with
- Isn't totally straight with
More clues leading to the result DUPES
- Cat's-paws
- Deceives
- Fools, as I have never done to anyone in my life
- Marks
- Swindles
- Gullible guys
- Suckers in
- Patsies
- Plays for a fool
- Swindling victims
More clues leading to the result HAS
- "Euclid alone ___ looked on beauty bare..."
- A few laughs
- Is afflicted with
- Suffers from
- Is in possession
- Is suffering from
- Keeps
- Owns
- ___-been
- Possesses
More clues leading to the result SCAMS
- Flimflams
- Ponzi schemes
- Rackets
- Confidence games
- Con games
- Pro con activities?
- Fleeces
- Fleecing activities
- Con jobs
- Bogus offers
More clues leading to the result ROOKS
- Chess castle
- Corner pieces
- Knights neighbors
- Castles
- Corner pieces?
- They can move across ranks and files
- Chess "castles"
- They move along ranks and files
- Swindles
- Castles on boards
More clues leading to the result PULLRICKON
More clues leading to the result DELUDES
More clues leading to the result ROPESIN
- Recruits successfully, perhaps
- Corrals
- Lures deceptively
- Lures
- Sets up for a scam
- Entices
- Lures by phishing, say
- Bamboozles
- Snags, so to speak
- Snares