The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word ANTI , but the solution may also be Spanish which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Con crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ANTI | 49 % | 4 |
| INMATE | 8 % | 6 |
| SCAM | 7 % | 4 |
| AGAINST | 5 % | 7 |
| DUPE | 5 % | 4 |
| RUSE | 3 % | 4 |
| SWINDLE | 2 % | 7 |
| SNOWJOB | 2 % | 7 |
| LIETO | 2 % | 5 |
| BILK | 2 % | 4 |
| CHEAT | 1 % | 5 |
| GYP | 1 % | 3 |
| PERUSE | 1 % | 6 |
| JAILBIRD | 1 % | 8 |
| SHAM | 1 % | 4 |
| HOAX | 1 % | 4 |
| RIPOFF | 1 % | 6 |
| FELON | 1 % | 5 |
| FLIMFLAM | 0 % | 8 |
| DEFRAUD | 0 % | 7 |
| PRISONER | 0 % | 8 |
| PIGEONDROP | 0 % | 10 |
| PRISONINMATE | 0 % | 12 |
| SLABOFBACON | 0 % | 11 |
| ROPEIN | 0 % | 6 |
| MINUS | 0 % | 5 |
| TRICK | 0 % | 5 |
| THIMBLERIG | 0 % | 10 |
| PUTUPJOB | 0 % | 8 |
| ACEOUT | 0 % | 6 |
| OLDARMYGAME | 0 % | 11 |
| Spanish | 0 % | 7 |
| FOOL | 0 % | 4 |
| READ | 0 % | 4 |
| PRISONRESIDENT | 0 % | 14 |
| GRIFT | 0 % | 5 |
| PONZISCHEME | 0 % | 11 |
| YARDBIRD | 0 % | 8 |
| OPPOSED | 0 % | 7 |
| FLEECE | 0 % | 6 |
| OPPOSEDTO | 0 % | 9 |
Why may SCAM be the right solution?
The answer "SCAM" is the right solution because "Con" is a slang term for a scam or a fraudulent scheme.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Con
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- swindle
- defraud
- flimflam
- diddle
- convict
- hustle
- learn
- jailbird
- sting
- inmate
- gyp
- memorize
Crossword Answer definitions
ANTI noun- A person opposed to a concept or principle.
- Opposed to something.
- That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°
- Alternative form of anti-
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 ANTI
- Before thesis
- Climactic intro?
- Contrarian, perhaps
- Non-pro
- Nonsupporter
- Not for
- One opposed
- Opponent
- Opposed
- Opposed to
More clues leading to the result INMATE
- Big house resident
- Joint tenant?
- Con
- Resident unable to leave
- "The Shawshank Redemption" extra
- Capone, from 1931 to 1939
- Pen pal?
- Slammer resident
- Sing Sing resident
- Warden's ward
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 AGAINST
More clues leading to the result DUPE
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 SWINDLE
More clues leading to the result SNOWJOB
- Deceptive effort, slangily
- Flattering trickery
- Subtle scam
- Deception using exaggeration
- Flattering deception
- Calculated flattery
- *Flattering deception
- Hustle
- Attempt to deceive using flattery
- Bland deception
More clues leading to the result LIETO
- Deceive
- Stay put, nautically
- Be dishonest with
- Be untruthful with
- Mislead
- Not be straight with
- Con
- Mislead, in a way
- Deceive, in a way
- Misinform
More clues leading to the result BILK
More clues leading to the result CHEAT
- Deceive by trickery
- Shortchange, say
- Peek at the answer
- Peek during a test
- Break the rules
- Steal answers
- Get an A by stealth
- Refuse to play by the rules
- Swindle
- Use a crib sheet
More clues leading to the result GYP
More clues leading to the result PERUSE
- Look over
- Give a once-over
- Read
- Wade through
- Eyeball
- Examine with care
- Pore over
- Scan
- Skim through
- Read carefully
More clues leading to the result JAILBIRD
- Cooler resident
- Convict
- Con
- Cooler dweller, or a novel
- Resident of 26-Across
- Pen resident
- "Avian" for whom flight is often futile
- Pen dweller.
- Matt Ward song about escapee?
More clues leading to the result SHAM
- Bogus
- Decorative cover
- Fake
- Pillow cover
- Pillow protector
- Sam the __ and the Pharaohs
- Bedding item
- Deceit
- Fraud
- Hoax
More clues leading to the result HOAX
- Mare's-nest
- The Cardiff Giant, for one
- Hoodwink
- Like an urban legend
- UFO's, perhaps
- Manti Te'o's girlfriend, for one
- The Cardiff Giant, e.g.
- Facebook privacy announcement, e.g.
- Kurt Vonnegut's faux commencement address e-mail, e.g.
- Like many a catfish relationship
More clues leading to the result RIPOFF
More clues leading to the result FELON
- Lawbreaker
- Big house resident
- Criminal
- Kidnaper, e.g.
- Con
- Many a convict
- Burglar
- One that's put away
- Racketeer, e.g.
- Big-time criminal
More clues leading to the result FLIMFLAM
More clues leading to the result DEFRAUD
More clues leading to the result PRISONER
- Jailbird
- Jailhouse lawyer, for example
- Pen occupant
- Cell user
- Joint tenant?
- "Orange Is the New Black" extra
- Captive
- Jean Valjean, e.g.
- Cooler guy
- Con
More clues leading to the result PIGEONDROP
More clues leading to the result PRISONINMATE
More clues leading to the result SLABOFBACON
More clues leading to the result ROPEIN
- Deceptively coax
- Entrap
- Recruit through deception
- Lure sneakily
- Entice
- Entice sneakily
- Sneakily lure
- Trick: Slang.
- Inveigle: Slang.
- Con
More clues leading to the result MINUS
- Negative
- Without
- Character flaw
- Grade diminisher
- Less
- -
- Calculator symbol
- Disadvantage
- Arithmetic sign
- Mathematics sign
More clues leading to the result TRICK
- Dodge
- Fool
- Halloween choice
- David Copperfield marvel
- Feat of magic
- Treat alternative
- "_or treat!"
- Deception
- Prank
- Fast one
More clues leading to the result THIMBLERIG
More clues leading to the result PUTUPJOB
- Craftily-plotted deed
- Con
- Bit of skulduggery
- Attempt to trick
- Sting, e.g.
- False accusation
- Prearranged conspiracy
More clues leading to the result ACEOUT
- Get the better of, as competition
- Defraud, in slang
- Get the better of
- Deprive fraudulently, in slang
- Con
- Defraud
- Gain an advantage over, in slang
- Beat, as the competition
- Get the better of, in slang
- Beat in competition
More clues leading to the result OLDARMYGAME
More clues leading to the result Spanish
- Before "moss" or "main"
- Cervantes wrote it
- Language common in Miami
- From Toledo, perhaps
- Kind of rice
- High school subject
- Kind of omelet
- García Lorca's language
- It can precede the start of 23- and 65-Across and 4-Down
- Kind of moss
More clues leading to the result FOOL
- Creamy dessert
- Blockhead
- April 1 victim
- "He who hesitates," per Mae West
- Idiot
- Meatball
- One who sits on a whoopee cushion
- Start of an eight-word stepquote
- Hoodwink
- Pull a prank on
More clues leading to the result READ
- Lip or sight follower
- ROM component
- Study
- Audition for a part
- Study the text
- Try for a part
- ___ between the lines
- "_____ my lips!"
- Do research
- Go over
More clues leading to the result PRISONRESIDENT
More clues leading to the result GRIFT
- Work as a swindler
- Play the con artist
- Confidence game
- Ill-gotten gains
- Swindle, la "The Sting"
- Dirty money
- Swindle
- Con
- Make money by conning
- Cheat, in a way
More clues leading to the result PONZISCHEME
- Fraudulent investment opportunity
- Certain investment swindle
- Investment swindle
- Bernard Madoff offering
- Source of false returns
- Scam
- Con
- Example of 20 Across
- Certain swindle
More clues leading to the result YARDBIRD
More clues leading to the result OPPOSED
- Was at loggerheads with
- At odds
- On the other side
- Like the nays
- Competed against
- Fought against
- Cast a veto
- Like a naysayer
- Spoke out against
- Not in favor
More clues leading to the result FLEECE
- Ewe's coat
- Ovine coat
- Warm coat
- Defraud
- Swindle
- Take to the cleaners
- It grows on ewe
- Sheep product
- Jason's quest
- Bamboozle