The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word SAP , but the solution may also be OUTWIT which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Dupe crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SAP | 18 % | 3 |
| CATSPAW | 13 % | 7 |
| REPRO | 10 % | 5 |
| CON | 9 % | 3 |
| GULL | 9 % | 4 |
| TOOL | 7 % | 4 |
| FOOL | 4 % | 4 |
| DELUDE | 4 % | 6 |
| PAWN | 3 % | 4 |
| SUCKER | 3 % | 6 |
| MISLEAD | 2 % | 7 |
| PATSY | 2 % | 5 |
| BAMBOOZLE | 1 % | 9 |
| HOAX | 1 % | 4 |
| HOCUS | 1 % | 5 |
| STOOGE | 1 % | 6 |
| EASYMARK | 1 % | 8 |
| MIMEO | 1 % | 5 |
| XEROX | 1 % | 5 |
| SCAM | 1 % | 4 |
| OUTWIT | 1 % | 6 |
| IMITATION | 1 % | 9 |
| CHEAT | 1 % | 5 |
| MAKEAFOOLOF | 1 % | 11 |
| VICTIM | 1 % | 6 |
| ROOK | 1 % | 4 |
| VICTIMIZE | 1 % | 9 |
| TAKEIN | 1 % | 6 |
| SITTINGDUCK | 1 % | 11 |
| TRICK | 1 % | 5 |
| SNOOKER | 1 % | 7 |
| REPLICA | 1 % | 7 |
Why may OUTWIT be the right solution?
"OUTWIT" is the right answer because to dupe someone means to deceive or trick them, and "OUTWIT" means to defeat or get the better of someone through cleverness or deception.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Dupe
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- fool
- victim
- put on
- gull
- slang
- cod
- befool
- put one across
- put one over
- take in
- hoodwink
- trick
Crossword Answer definitions
SAP noun- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Any juice.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To gradually weaken.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
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 SAP
More clues leading to the result CATSPAW
- Stooge
- Person serving as a dupe
- Con's target
- Dupe
- One manipulated by another
- Pawn
- Puppet
- Unwitting tool
- Pawn in another's game
- Tool
More clues leading to the result REPRO
- Copy of a sort
- Copy, for short
- Copy or duplicate
- Printer's proof
- Printer's proof, for short
- Art print
- Copy, in short
- Publishable copy
- Facsimile
- Office copy, commonly
More clues leading to the result CON
- Jailer's charge
- Man in the pen
- Joint tenant
- Kind of game
- Take for a ride
- Thimblerig
- Swindle
- __ brio
- One who didn't dodge a charge?
- Spam, often (and the start of a split order of rice porridge)
More clues leading to the result GULL
- Coastal aquatic bird
- Sea bird
- Aquatic bird
- Wading bird with a harsh call
- Beach frequenter
- Deceive
- Seaside scavenger
- Beach scavenger
- Tern's cousin
- It soars over shores
More clues leading to the result TOOL
- Cat's-paw
- Fixer's kit
- Handyman's necessity
- Implement
- Router, for one
- Means to an end
- Tim Allen need
- Drive (around)
- Gimlet, for one
- Gimlet or screwdriver
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 DELUDE
More clues leading to the result PAWN
- Chess piece
- Hock
- Board member up for promotion?
- Tal man?
- Unwitting accomplice
- King's soldier
- King's soldier, maybe
- Lowly chess piece
- Small piece
- Piece captured en passant
More clues leading to the result SUCKER
More clues leading to the result MISLEAD
- Dupe
- Deceive
- Throw a curveball to
- Send astray.
- Deceive.
- Cause to err.
- Throw off the scent
- Trick
- Give the bum steer
- What weasel words do
More clues leading to the result PATSY
- Sucker
- "Crazy" singer Cline
- "I Fall To Pieces" singer Cline
- Dupe
- Fall guy
- Easy mark
- Cline of country
- Pushover
- Swindler's victim
- Easily duped sort
More clues leading to the result BAMBOOZLE
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 HOCUS
- Pocus' partner
- Start of a magician's phrase
- Half a magic phrase
- With 59 Down, sleight of hand
- Conjurer's first word?
- Pocus lead-in
- Start of a magical incantation
- Half of a magician's rhyme
- Magical opening
- Magical start
More clues leading to the result STOOGE
- Straight man
- Curly, e.g.
- Howard, Howard, or Fine
- Complete idiot
- Larry or Moe
- Bozo
- Willing butt of gags
- Flunky
- Slapstick trio member
- Comic underling
More clues leading to the result EASYMARK
- Patsy
- Pigeon
- Sitting duck
- Pigeon, to a con artist
- Swindler's perfect victim
- Gull
- Swindler's quest
- See 6 Across.
- Dupe.
- Soft touch
More clues leading to the result MIMEO
- Old copy machine
- Photocopier's ancestor
- Pre-Xerox copy
- Retro copier
- Old school machine
- Copy from a stencil, briefly
- Obsolete repro
- Old printing machine, for short
- Copy, in a way
- Old copy
More clues leading to the result XEROX
- Company too dimwitted to hide its computer mouse technology from Steve Jobs
- BenefitWallet company
- Big name in copying
- ColorQube manufacturer
- Copy
- Maker of the ColorQube 8700 printer
- Maker of the ColorQube printer
- Office clone
- Perfect copy
- Photocopy
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 OUTWIT
- Surpass in cunning
- Get the better of
- First word in the "Survivor" mantra
- Prove shrewder than
- Think one step ahead of
- Stay one step ahead of
- Circumvent
- Prove more cunning than
- Think faster than
- Finesse
More clues leading to the result IMITATION
- Dupe
- Faux
- Fake
- Knockoff
- "___ of Christ."—Kempis.
- Counterfeit.
- Not the real McCoy.
- Not the real thing.
- Ersatz
- Copy
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 MAKEAFOOLOF
More clues leading to the result VICTIM
- Murder mystery extra
- Target of a practical joke
- Sitting duck
- Murder mystery nonsurvivor
- Clue's Mr. Boddy, e.g.
- Prey
- One who is swindled, e.g.
- Scam target
- Person scammed
- Swindler's dupe.
More clues leading to the result ROOK
- Castling requirement
- Cheat
- Versification
- Chess piece
- Kasparov's piece
- One of Deep Blue's men
- He guards the corner of the chessboard
- Corner piece
- Castling piece
- Rank-and-file chess piece
More clues leading to the result VICTIMIZE
More clues leading to the result TAKEIN
- Adopt, in a way
- Garner
- Flimflam
- Provide lodging for
- Earn
- Adopt
- Bamboozle
- Deceive
- Gross at the store
- Adopt, as a puppy
More clues leading to the result SITTINGDUCK
- Gallery sighting
- Easy target
- Defenseless target
- Dupe
- One who's easy to take
- Hard-to-miss target
- Vulnerable one
- Easy mark
- Model widgeon?
- One liable to get hurt
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 SNOOKER
- Hoodwink
- Pool game
- Type of pool
- Pub game
- Pool game with 21 balls
- Pool variety
- Type of billiards
- Pool table game
- Put one over on
- Dupe