FAKE Crossword Clue & Answer

do

act cod dud gyp rig sub tin

aped base cook copy deke duff echo faux flam fool game hoax hoke icon junk like load mock pack play pose salt sell sham sign vamp wear

actor ad lib ad-lib agent alike alter bluff bogus cheap cheat color ditto dummy equal faked faker false feign feint forge fraud fudge gaudy ghost hatch hokey image junky let on mimic paste phony pinch plant poser proxy pseud put on put-on quack quasi queer snide spare spoof stack stage token vicar

affect assume backup borrow change chorus cook up copied deputy do a bit do like doctor double ectype ersatz fill-in forced forged framed gammon go like hoaxer hoke up humbug invent juggle lash up make up mirror modify phoney poseur pseudo reecho relief repeat ringer rip off rip-off ripoff shoddy spares symbol tinsel unreal warped whip up wing it

act like analogy assumed bastard bluffer colored concoct cover up dash off falsify falsity feigned fictive forgery frame up frame-up garbled gimmick imitate jury-rig man-made overact picture plastic playact pretend profess reflect reserve retouch shammer similar stand in stand-in stopgap swindle toss off toss out trump up twisted utility whomp up

act a part affected affecter apparent blagueur deceiver delusion disguise exchange fair copy fakement favoring flimflam imitated imposter impostor invented knock off likeness make as if make like metaphor metonymy mimicked pastiche portrait pretense put-up job reserves simulate so-called spurious straw man throw off

alternate brummagem charlatan clinquant colorable concocted deception deceptive dishonest dissemble distorted do offhand dramatise dramatize dressed up fabricate falsified fantasise fantasize following four-flush glorified hollow man identical imitation imposture improvise invention let on like makeshift mannerist not unlike pasticcio performer personnel perverted pinchbeck play a part play by ear playactor pretended pretender put on airs quackster secondary semblance simulated soi-disant strike off surrogate synthetic temporary tentative titivated ungenuine unnatural vicarious

adulterate apocryphal artificial caricature changeling comparison consimilar equivalent fabricated factitious fictitious fraudulent malingerer man of straw manipulate mountebank paper tiger plagiarise plagiarize play a scene play possum resembling self-styled similitude simulacrum smacking of substitute superseder supplanter synecdoche tamper with theatrical understudy vice-regent

alternative counterfeit dissimulate embellished embroidered extemporise extemporize fabrication fourflusher ghost writer ghostwriter histrionize homogeneous improvisate inauthentic locum tenens make a show of make believe make out like make-believe manufacture pinch hitter plagiarized provisional quacksalver replacement resemblance saltimbanco substituent succedaneum third string unauthentic uniform with

faithful copy hypocritical illegitimate impersonator lay it on thick scrap the plan second string sophisticate substitution suggestive of

certified copy counterfeited make a pretense next best thing skeuomorphism something like throw together utility player vice-president

crocodile tears presupposition representation representative supposititious

whited sepulcher

nearly reproduced

tug the heartstrings

go through the motions