| Play-acting up to age nine starts to create empathy |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
01 Aug 2025 |
| Affectation, facade (8) |
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| What a sham - the way a pen is used in Crete! (8) |
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| Show a third of retailers in the money |
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| A deceptive claim to have a particular skill or quality (8) |
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| Retired, constrained by very little money? That's make-believe |
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| Sham coins round about end of August (8) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
24 Mar 2025 |
| Claim made before a number at Church meeting (8) |
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| Act of give false information; make-belief (8) |
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| Sham crepe net produced (8) |
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| Acting pair with English figure by empty college (8) |
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| Fraud retired in British capital (8) |
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| Before fraught broadcast show |
The Telegraph Toughie |
23 Oct 2024 |
| Charade, sham (8) |
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| Repent awkwardly at church for charade (8) |
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| Claim from priest, figure in Eastern church (8) |
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| Trivial pretext that made ten creep about (8) |
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| A false claim to have a particular skill or quality (8) |
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| About to meet Tory leader with a small amount of money outside but it's just for appearances? |
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| Charade |
Mirror Tea Time |
26 Apr 2024 |
| Half make a comeback among the coppers, but it's all a sham (8) |
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| Peter turned, once beheaded, but it was a sham (8) |
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| Dissembling or make-believe (8) |
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| Claim money round about the end of August |
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| Charade |
Mirror Tea Time |
14 Feb 2024 |
| Company research taking place in British capital (8) |
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| Fake bit of help re ten cents (8) |
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| Make-believe; erect pen (anag.) |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Sep 2023 |
| Giving a false appearance |
The Guardian Quick |
06 May 2023 |
| Show in reconstructed PE centre |
The Times Cryptic |
21 Dec 2022 |
| Show recent changes in gym |
The Times Cryptic |
19 Oct 2022 |
| Make-believe |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 Sep 2022 |
| Show |
The Times Concise |
16 Jan 2022 |
| Show in church after 9:59? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
15 Dec 2021 |
| Show off crêpe, draped round figure |
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| Make-believe |
Irish Times Simplex |
23 Aug 2021 |
| Awful creep, about ten, behaving insincerely |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 May 2021 |
| About time to stop vice-president making false claim |
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| Show on television initially in the money |
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| Make-believe |
Irish Times Simplex |
18 Sep 2020 |
| Play-acting in gym over centre spread? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
28 Apr 2020 |
| It's just make-believe, if 12-year-old hides a tablet at church |
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| Recent changes in gym are a sham |
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| Make-believe |
The Times Concise |
01 Jun 2018 |
| Affectation |
The Sun Two Speed |
31 Mar 2018 |
| Sham coins round about end of August |
The Sun Two Speed |
31 Mar 2018 |
| Claim represented by, say, nine Anglicans |
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| Creep nervously round trap, lifting cover |
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| Creep nervously round trap, lifting cover |
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| Act of make-believe |
The Times Concise |
13 Nov 2015 |
| Retired, overwhelmed by change? That's affectation |
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| Repent awkwardly going to church? Don't believe a word of it! |
Irish Times Crosaire |
26 Mar 2015 |
| Mere ostentation: Var. |
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| False show, British style. |
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| Sham. |
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| Artifice: Var. |
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