The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SCAPEGOAT which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2017.
Shakespeare's Shylock, for one crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SCAPEGOAT | 50 % | 9 |
| MISER | 50 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Shakespeare's Shylock, for one
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Crossword Answer definitions
SCAPEGOAT noun- In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
- Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.
- To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
- To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.
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 SCAPEGOAT
- Fall guy
- Person to blame
- On whose head lies the sins of others.
- Relative of a fall guy.
- Current best-seller (with "The").
- Fall guy.
- Victim of a sort
- Blame unjustly
- Butt
- Patsy