Word "HOAX" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
Synonyms:
dupery, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, put-on

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
subject to a playful hoax or joke
Synonyms:
play a joke on, pull someone's leg

Crossword Clues for HOAX

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Clue Source Date
Snopes.com entry, perhaps?
Snopes may debunk one USA Today 22 Aug 2025
Elaborate deception USA Today 13 Aug 2025
Flimflam (4) The Guardian Quick 13 Aug 2025
Elaborate trick USA Today 12 Aug 2025
Scam The Telegraph Quick 12 Jul 2025
Practical joke in house with a cross (4)
Practical joke placing US tool under house (4)
Deception The Telegraph Quick 22 Jun 2025
Regular shmo will answer unknown number, though it might be a prank
Practical joke The Telegraph Quick 20 Jun 2025
Elaborate deception Newsday 19 May 2025
A practical joke or deception (4)
Trick The Telegraph Quick 15 May 2025
Phony happening
Humbug Newsday 10 May 2025
Deceptive trick Mirror Tea Time 27 Apr 2025
Con man's trick Thomas Joseph 25 Apr 2025
Elaborate deception Commuter 12 Apr 2025
Elaborate fake Wall Street Journal 07 Apr 2025
Elaborate fraud Family Time 06 Apr 2025
House given a cross in practical joke (4)
Deceptive practical joke (4)
Snopes.com entry, perhaps?
Have one on a" have only half eaten nothing before ten (4)
Kid in house given a kiss The Times Sunday Cryptic 16 Feb 2025
Hydroxide one is to cross with some practical joke (4)
Con man's trick Thomas Joseph 29 Jan 2025
Elaborate deception Newsday 22 Jan 2025
News of an alien landing, probably New York Times 14 Jan 2025
Deceptive trick The Telegraph Quick 01 Jan 2025
Scam The Telegraph Quick 23 Dec 2024
* Like stories surrounding 11a, perhaps (rhymes with "coax")
Fraudulent stunt The Times Concise 10 Dec 2024
Prank on the public New York Times 09 Dec 2024
Deception The Times Sunday Concise 08 Dec 2024
Public prank
The Cardiff Giant or Bigfoot, for example
Call some taxis to a house as a prank
Trick Mirror Tea Time 11 Oct 2024
Malicious deception in house with a cross (4)
Deception Mirror Classic 14 Sep 2024
Deceptive scam (4)
How tax lost a little weight, leading to fraud (4)
Malicious trick? The Telegraph Quick 18 Aug 2024
Husband gets bull with a deception Mirror Cryptic 13 Aug 2024
Practical joke Mirror Quick 13 Aug 2024
Mischievous deception (4)
Flimflam The Times Sunday Concise 28 Jul 2024
Target for a debunker Wall Street Journal 16 Jul 2024
A humorous or malicious deception (4)
Prank (4) The Guardian Quick 03 Jun 2024
Deception Mirror Classic 01 Jun 2024
A deception (4)
Many a news headline on April 1
Scam The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 12 May 2024
Macho axemen conceal practical joke
Humorous or malicious deception (4)
The Cardiff Giant, for one New York Times 10 Apr 2024
Joking deception (4)
Hot draft animal maintains a deception (4)
Deceptive trick or scam (4)
Something false that has been passed off as genuine (4)
Con man's trick Thomas Joseph 28 Feb 2024
Snopes.com entry, perhaps?
Hoodwink Wall Street Journal 24 Feb 2024
Home Office careless, missing first scam The Times Quick Cryptic 24 Feb 2024
Deception The Telegraph Quick 18 Feb 2024
No angle is hexagonal? Humbug! (4)
Scam Thomas Joseph 16 Jan 2024
Fake news article on April Fool's Day say
It's phony-baloney Universal 15 Jan 2024
Elaborate deception Newsday 08 Jan 2024
Deception Eugene Sheffer 02 Jan 2024
Fraud, deception (4)
Murphy
Public prank LA Times Daily 13 Dec 2023
Like stories surrounding 11a, perhaps (rhymes with "coax")
Sidd Finch, in baseball journalism lore
Big fake
Loch Ness monster, apparently New York Times 19 Nov 2023
Deception The Guardian Quick 17 Nov 2023
What a cryptid might be New York Times 12 Oct 2023
Elaborate fraud Family Time 10 Sep 2023
Deception Eugene Sheffer 12 Aug 2023
Like an urban legend
Act of deception (rhymes with "coax")
Crop circles, for one Universal 05 Jul 2023
Many a cryptid sighting, e.g Universal 16 Jun 2023
Evidence of a 49-Across, presumably Universal 23 May 2023
Debunker's target
Dupe Thomas Joseph 28 Apr 2023
Fabricated story
Elaborate ruse Universal 29 Jan 2023
Deception The Times Concise 17 Nov 2022
Stop scratching head and vote for fraud
Deceptive trick The Times Concise 21 Oct 2022
Dupe Thomas Joseph 20 Oct 2022
Initially head off a sign of voting fraud The Times Cryptic 18 Oct 2022
Woman not oddly cross after husband's practical joke
Deliberate false alarm
Deception Eugene Sheffer 07 Sep 2022
Deception Eugene Sheffer 05 Aug 2022
Abominable Snowman (probably) New York Times 05 Jul 2022
Elaborate deception Newsday 12 May 2022
Prankster's project Newsday 11 Mar 2022
Elaborate ruse USA Today 26 Feb 2022
Deceptive trick The Times Concise 30 Dec 2021
Intentional false alarm?
Deception Eugene Sheffer 08 Dec 2021
Virtually hot and cross after a practical joke The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Nov 2021
Deliberate trick The Guardian Quick 16 Oct 2021
Act of deception
Major deception Wall Street Journal 16 Sep 2021
Elaborate ruse The Washington Post 06 Sep 2021
Elaborate ruse LA Times Daily 06 Sep 2021
Like some UFO sightings
Deceptive act The Washington Post 22 May 2021
Deceptive act LA Times Daily 22 May 2021
One may get pulled in deception
Stop wife leaving by trick
Humorous deception The Telegraph Quick 08 Mar 2021
Elaborate deception Newsday 15 Feb 2021
Elaborate fraud Newsday 19 Jan 2021
Take in cable, with height not constant
Many an April 1 “news” item Wall Street Journal 05 Jan 2021
Stop scratching head and vote for fraud
Like some UFO sightings (rhymes with "coax")
Trick Xhosa played after son left
Elaborate ruse USA Today 02 Jun 2020
Spoof The Telegraph Quick 27 May 2020
Deception Eugene Sheffer 17 Mar 2020
It can be spread by a doctored photograph The Washington Post Sunday 15 Mar 2020
Candidate for debunking Wall Street Journal 28 Dec 2019
Many an urban legend Wall Street Journal 25 Nov 2019
It's not for real Newsday 09 Nov 2019
Elaborate deception New York Times 06 Nov 2019
Elaborate deception
Mencken’s history of the bathtub, e.g Wall Street Journal 19 Sep 2019
The Cardiff Giant, notably LA Times Daily 05 Sep 2019
The Cardiff Giant, notably The Washington Post 05 Sep 2019
Like some UFO sightings
1869's Cardiff Giant, e.g Wall Street Journal 24 Jul 2019
April Fools' Day rumor, for e.g.
Deceptive trick Newsday 10 Jul 2019
Kid's hard, picked up fellers' targets? The Telegraph Toughie 31 May 2019
Intended trick or prank
Prank The Times Concise 19 May 2019
Deceptive trick The Telegraph Quick 05 Feb 2019
Set up housing loans from Halifax banks Irish Times Crosaire 25 Jan 2019
Mencken's history of the bathtub, e.g.
1869's Cardiff Giant, e.g.
The Cardiff Giant, notably
Flimflam Thomas Joseph 12 Dec 2018
Deception The Times Concise 28 Nov 2018
Con man's trick Thomas Joseph 10 Oct 2018
Hoodwink New York Times 03 Oct 2018
Elaborate prank Universal 27 Jul 2018
Practical joke, a leg-pull The Telegraph General Knowledge 17 Jun 2018
Hoodwink
Elaborate prank
Snopes.com subject The Washington Post Sunday 10 Dec 2017
Debunked thing Wall Street Journal 08 Nov 2017
Prank The Telegraph Quick 27 Aug 2017
Barnum's 'Feejee Mermaid,' e.g Wall Street Journal 03 Aug 2017
Fraud LA Times Daily 24 Jul 2017
Fraud The Washington Post 24 Jul 2017
A fabricated event or piece of news, sometimes done as a practical joke
Attempt to attract attention with a kiss that deceives The Times Cryptic 25 May 2017
Major prank Newsday 18 May 2017
Scam The Telegraph Quick 07 Mar 2017
Scam or sham The Washington Post 28 Feb 2017
Elaborate ruse LA Times Daily 26 Feb 2017
Relative of fake news New York Times 03 Jan 2017
Fraud
Relative of fake news
Elaborate ruse
Fraud The Telegraph Quick 02 Dec 2016
Crop circles, e.g New York Times 11 Nov 2016
Welles's 'The War of the Worlds,' e.g The Washington Post 22 Oct 2016
Put-on USA Today 13 Oct 2016
Deception The Guardian Speedy 10 Sep 2016
Set-up housing loans from Halifax banks (4) Irish Times Crosaire 11 Aug 2016
Put-on LA Times Daily 29 May 2016
Publicity stunt, perhaps The Washington Post 03 May 2016
Scam Newsday 13 Apr 2016
Scam LA Times Daily 03 Mar 2016
Put on New York Times 19 Feb 2016
Put-on The Washington Post 28 Jan 2016
Gull in trees with aspiration, we hear?
Deceptive deed The Washington Post 03 Jan 2016
Crop circles, e.g.
Put-on
Put-on
Major prank The Washington Post 04 Dec 2015
Fake LA Times Daily 14 Nov 2015
Horse — farm animal — eating a gull The Times Cryptic 05 Nov 2015
What an unbelievable YouTube video might be New York Times 07 Oct 2015
Deceptive trick, could be malicious Irish Times Simplex 22 Jun 2015
Practical joke The Telegraph Quick 16 May 2015
Practical joke, tho', not beginning with a kiss
Trick The Telegraph Quick 23 Jan 2015
What an unbelievable YouTube video might be
Major prank
Fake
Fast one hardly observes at Xmas, first of all
Fool in house is useless with a kiss
Husband gets one involved in neat trick
Manti Te'o's girlfriend, for one
Stratagem
Deception
Swindle
Scam or sham
Dupe's downfall
April 1st antic
Elaborate fraud
Robin Davey band The ___
April 1 trick
Piltdown man, for one
Trick gives prostitute a kiss
Global warming, some say
Barnum's Fiji mermaid, for one
Many a P.T. Barnum exhibit
Barnum's Fiji mermaid, for one
Piltdown man, for one
Snopes.com subject
Bamboozle
Piltdown Man, e.g.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, e.g.
Debunker's target
Many an urban legend
Cottingley Fairies, for one
Fraud
"The War of the Worlds" broadcast, notably
Elaborate ruse
Fraud
Elaborate fake
April 1 news story, maybe
"The War of the Worlds" broadcast, notably
Put one over on
Piltdown man, say
1938 "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, for one
Elaborate fraud
1938 "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, for one
April Fool's Day prank
Piltdown man, say
Deceitful device
Piltdown man, e.g.
"Balloon Boy," for one
Con
UFO photo, perhaps
Piltdown man, e.g.
Elaborate fraud
Sting, for instance
It's perpetrated by a prankster
Snow job
Mare's nest
Sting, for instance
Sham or scam
Piltdown man, notably
Bigfoot photo, e.g.
Elaborate April fool
Something intended to deceive
April 1 event
Major prank
Dupery
It's a trick
Deceptive act
Many a P.T. Barnum attraction
Imposture
Sham
Fake
Elaborate falsehood
Debunked thing
Subject of a forwarded e-mail, often
The Piltdown Man, notably
Elaborate lie
Fraudulent event
April 1st event
Hoodwink
Art forgery, maybe
Piltdown man, e.g.
Prankster's project
The Cardiff Giant, for one
Welles' Martian invasion broadcast, e.g.
Elaborate ruse
Debunker's target
Hoodwink
Con
Hornswoggle
The Cardiff Giant, for one
Piltdown man, for one
Fraudulence
Scam
The Piltdown Man, e.g.
The 1938 broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" was one
The 1938 broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" was one
Bamboozlement
Forged artifact, e.g.
Piltdown Man, for one
Put-on
Put-on
Like a famous Welles radio broadcast
Flimflam
Put-on
It's not for real
False claim
Fast one
Like an urban legend
The Hitler Diaries, e.g.
The Piltdown man, e.g.
The Piltdown man, notably
The Piltdown man, notably
Hornswoggle
Martian invasion report, e.g.
Put-on
Spoof
Bamboozle
Put-on
Deception
The Cardiff Giant, e.g.
Hornswoggle
Piltdown Man, for one
Attempted deception
Elaborate lie
UFO's, perhaps
Trickster's deception
The Piltdown man, e.g.
Campus prank, often
Deception
The Piltdown man, e.g.
Piltdown Man, e.g.
Plan to fool
Piltdown man, e.g.
The Piltdown man, for one
Hornswoggle
Put-on
Crop circles, e.g.
Mare's nest
Trick
Deceitful act
Deceitful act
Hoodwink
Mare's-nest
England's crop circles, notably
Fraudulent claim
Flimflam
Deception
Deception
Welles' Martian invasion broadcast, e.g.
The Piltdown Man, for one
Bamboozle
Practical joke
Rip-off
Martian invasion report, e.g.
Practical joke
Major prank
Fraud
Practical joke
Mare's-nest
Imposture
Practical joke
Ruse
Canard
Practical joke, e.g.
Fraud
Mare's nest
Hitler's diaries, e.g.
Dupe
Flimflam
Mislead.
Piltdown man, for one.
Milli Vanilli, famously
Deception.
Trick.
Wily trick.
Practical joke.
Mare's-nest.
Fraud.
Kurt Vonnegut's faux commencement address e-mail, e.g.
Facebook privacy announcement, e.g.
Like many a catfish relationship
The Cardiff Giant was one.
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