The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word WILE , but the solution may also be RUSE which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Chicanery crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| WILE | 32 % | 4 |
| DECEIT | 14 % | 6 |
| RUSE | 9 % | 4 |
| GUILE | 9 % | 5 |
| RUSES | 5 % | 5 |
| HOKEYPOKEY | 5 % | 10 |
| SCAM | 5 % | 4 |
| DIPSYDOODLE | 5 % | 11 |
| HOCUSPOCUS | 5 % | 10 |
| FRAUD | 5 % | 5 |
| GRAFT | 5 % | 5 |
| PETTIFOGGERY | 5 % | 12 |
Why may RUSE be the right solution?
The word "ruse" is a suitable answer to the clue "chicanery" because it refers to a deceptive or cunning trick. Both "ruse" and "chicanery" describe actions or strategies intended to deceive or manipulate others.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Chicanery
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- trickery
- wile
- guile
- shenanigan
- persecution
- bullying
- harassment
- hokeypokey
- skulduggery
- skullduggery
- subterfuge
- duplicity
Crossword Answer definitions
WILE verb- To pass (time) idly.
- To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.
- To loiter.
- (usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
- To entice or lure
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 WILE
- __ E. Coyote
- Stratagem
- Bit of chicanery
- Scheming
- Sneaky trick
- Trick
- Artifice
- Sly stratagem
- Beguiling trick
- Pass, with "away"
More clues leading to the result DECEIT
- Con man's game
- Chicanery
- Trickery
- Double dealing
- Duplicity
- Scheming behavior
- Skullduggery
- Artifice
- Double-dealing
- Con man's forte
More clues leading to the result RUSE
- Crafty manuever
- Subterfuge
- Trick
- Deception
- Devious scheme
- Artful dodge
- Bit of chicanery
- Con man's device
- Artifice
- Ploy
More clues leading to the result GUILE
- Artful deception
- Cunning
- Sly quality
- Sneaky manner
- Trickery
- Iago's talent
- Craftiness
- Duplicity
- Shrewdness
- Wiliness
More clues leading to the result RUSES
- Deceptions
- Tricks
- Strategies
- Artful dodges
- Deceptive maneuvers
- Deceptive ploys
- Sneaky stratagems
- Subterfuges
- Stratagems
- Ploys
More clues leading to the result HOKEYPOKEY
- Line dance
- Dance where "you turn yourself around"
- Dance in a ring
- Group dance song with the repeated lyric "that's what it's all about"
- Song involving body parts
- Circle dance
- Popular dance at kiddie parties
- Ice cream sold by street peddlers: Colloq.
- Chicanery
- Party dance of old
More clues leading to the result SCAM
- Sting
- Get-rich-quick offering, often
- Hoodwink
- Shell game, e.g.
- Con game
- Con man's trick
- Deceptive act
- Pyramid scheme?
- Three-card monte, for one
- Flimflam
More clues leading to the result DIPSYDOODLE
More clues leading to the result HOCUSPOCUS
- Nonsense
- Laugh near border adjoining Orange County, U.S., for a spell (5,5)
- Sleight of hand
- Wizard's words
- Sleight of hand, or a novel
- Magician's words
- Words before disappearing, perhaps
- Bit of deception
- Magical expression
- Sleight of hand.
More clues leading to the result FRAUD
- Impostor
- Charlatan
- Mountebank
- Trickery
- Bunco squad's concern
- Criminal deception
- Super duper
- Dupery
- Businessman's crime
- Deceptive crime
More clues leading to the result GRAFT
- Transplant, in a way
- Political payoff
- Corrupt pol's crime
- Skin replacement procedure
- Political funny business
- Illegal payoff
- Surgeon's procedure
- Boss Tweed's crime
- It's a white-collar crime
- Replace damaged skin, perhaps