| One who acts sick but isn't really sick |
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| He pretended that leading farmhand broke rake (5) |
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| Charlatan |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 May 2025 |
| Con artist |
Newsday |
01 May 2025 |
| Person playing possum, perhaps |
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| Person who's not real |
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| Pretender; freak (anag.) |
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| See 21 |
The Guardian Cryptic |
08 Jan 2024 |
| Charlatan |
Universal |
04 Aug 2023 |
| Charlatan |
Newsday |
02 Apr 2023 |
| Total phony |
New York Times |
26 Jan 2023 |
| Impostor |
Universal |
11 Nov 2022 |
| Imposter |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Mar 2022 |
| Charlatan |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Dec 2021 |
| Phony person |
Universal |
14 Dec 2020 |
| Imposter |
Thomas Joseph |
19 May 2020 |
| Fraudulent one |
The Washington Post Sunday |
15 Mar 2020 |
| Charlatan |
Newsday |
08 Mar 2020 |
| Phony sort |
Premier Sunday |
16 Jun 2019 |
| Charlatan |
The New Yorker |
06 Aug 2018 |
| Charlatan |
New York Times |
02 Feb 2018 |
| Charlatan |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 Jan 2018 |
| Charlatan |
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| Pretender |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Sep 2017 |
| One feigning illness, say |
USA Today |
01 Oct 2016 |
| Flopper in basketball, e.g |
New York Times |
30 Mar 2016 |
| One feigning illness, say |
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| Fraud |
Newsday |
31 Dec 2015 |
| Fraud |
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| Safe-cracker is sadly not scarce counterfeiter |
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| Impostor |
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| Con artist |
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| Actor, usually |
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| Charlatan |
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| Quack |
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| Charlatan |
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| Possum player |
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| Charlatan |
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| Charlatan |
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| Charlatan |
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| Charlatan |
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| Fraud |
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| Phony |
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| Pretender |
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| Impostor |
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| Pretender |
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| One who plays possum, for example |
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| Charlatan |
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| Imposter |
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| Phony |
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| Impostor |
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| Con artist |
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| Hypocrite |
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| Phony |
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| Phony person |
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| Mountebank |
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| Quack |
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| He's bluffing |
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| Deceptive person |
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| One who feigns |
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| Quack |
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| Con man |
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| Swindler |
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| Applicable to the duke: Huckleberry Finn. |
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| Charlatan. |
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| Mountebank. |
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| Fraud. |
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| Poseur. |
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| Humbug. |
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| Trickster. |
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| Quack's cousin. |
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| Gimmick user. |
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