Something nasty afoot with British deserting alliance Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Something nasty afoot with British deserting alliance featured in Times Cryptic puzzle on October 7, 2025. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 5 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is UNION.

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40 Potential Answers:

RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% UNION Something nasty afoot with British deserting alliance (5) The Times Cryptic Oct 7, 2025
3% HORSESHOE There's something afoot in the stable (9) (9)
2% NOMADS Desert wanderers (6)
2% BRICKIE British mason (7) Newsday Oct 3, 2025
2% ARSE British bum (4) New York Times Oct 3, 2025
2% ABANDON Desert (7) New York Times Oct 1, 2025
2% SAHARA Desert whose name comes from the Arabic for "desert" (6) New York Times Oct 1, 2025
2% GOBI Asian desert (4) Commuter Sep 30, 2025
2% ARID Dry as a desert (4)
2% TORY British conservative (4) Newsday Sep 28, 2025

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