The clue "deceit" last appeared in the The Washington Post crossword on October 27, 2018. The correct answer for this puzzle is "fraudulence", a 11-letter word.
Solution FRAUDULENCE is our most searched for solution by our visitors. Solution FRAUDULENCE is 11 letters long. We have 25 further solutions of the same word length.
There are 280 solutions. The longest is MISREPRESENTATION with 17 letters, and the shortest is ART with 3 letters.
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Solutions are between 3 and 17 letters long.
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| Pretence, cheating (6) | |
| Practice of deceiving (6) | |
| Fraud, falseness (6) | |