Sting - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 12/03/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Sting.

3 letter answer(s) to sting

CON
  1. To direct the steering or course of (a vessel). n. 1. The area or structure on a vessel from which the vessel is conned. 2. The position or authority of the officer conning a vessel.
  2. a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
  3. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
  4. an argument opposed to a proposal
  5. commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?"
  6. deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
  7. in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.; "much was written pro and con"

4 letter answer(s) to sting

SCAM
  1. a fraudulent business scheme
  2. con, cheat
  3. deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
TRAP
  1. a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
  2. a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters
  3. a hazard on a golf course
  4. a light two-wheeled carriage
  5. catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes"
  6. drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas
  7. hold or catch as if in a trap; "The gaps between the teeth trap food particles"
  8. informal terms for the mouth
  9. place in a confining or embarrassing position; "He was trapped in a difficult situation"
  10. something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares; "the exam was full of trap questions"; "it was all a snare and delusion"
  11. the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
  12. to hold fast or prevent from moving; "The child was pinned under the fallen tree"

5 letter answer(s) to sting

SMART
  1. a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
  2. be the source of pain
  3. capable of independent and apparently intelligent action; "smart weapons"
  4. characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"
  5. elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut"
  6. improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"
  7. painfully severe; "he gave the dog a smart blow"
  8. quick and brisk; "I gave him a smart salute"; "we walked at a smart pace"
  9. showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Sting'

"Shut your ___!"
16 down's small flower
Against clubs playing?
Ambush
Anti body?
Argument against
Bamboozle
Being heartless, get away with trick
Bernie Madoff's hedge fun
Big fat mouth
Big mouth
Big mouth, slangily
Brainy
Bright
Bunker perhaps where some turned up
Bunko game
Burn
Burrowing arthropods
Capture
Carriage in ambush
Carriage; snare
Catch constituent up
Catch lines being raised
Catch piece that's knocked up
Catch some climbing
Catch-22
Catch; carriage
Cell sojourner
Chat volubly after drop of Tanqueray gin?
Cheat
Cheat one out of some money
Chic
Chops branch up
Clever
Clever sting
Clever vehicles reversed
Con
Con artist's art
Con game
Con job
Concern over pitfall
Contrivance for taking pe
Corner
Cozenage
Crosspiece put over hole in floor
Curtailed rascal’s swindle
Deadfall, e.g.
Debate side
Deceive; disadvantage
Deception
Deception; disadvantage
Decoy
Defraud
Dishonest scheme
Do back up computers
Do computers up
Do some tremendous campaigning
Do study
Dodge 22, briefly
Door without a knob, say
Drain part
Drainpipe part
Duffer's challenge
Duffer's locale
Duffer's obstacle
E-mail from a Nigerian pr
E-mail offer of $17,000,0
Elegant and stylish
Elegant form of transport on the rise
Eligible for Mensa
Ensnaring scheme
Fashionable
Fashionable public transport making comeback
Fast one
Fast shuffle, so to speak
Fat mouth
Feel the pain
Fiddle about during kinky sex
Fiddle with computers the wrong way
Fleece
Fleece coats from down under
Fleece coats from the south
Fleece coats returned
Fleece overcoats?
Flimflam
Football play
Fraud
Fraud involving computers being recalled
Fraud squad's head about to get married
Fraud when computers backed up
Fraudulent operation
Fraudulent scheme
Gin - hidden danger
Gin? Some coming up
Goal of phishing
Golf course pitfall
Golf hazard
Golf peril
Golfer's concern
Green flanker
Hazard making some upset
Head of company working a swindle
Heads of Swiss company ably manufacturing fiddle
Held up some in ambush?
Help in hunting
Hoax
Hoodwink
Hurt
Hurt a little
Hustle
Ingenious sting!
Initially take blame for chops
Intelligent
Intelligent; sting
It may be sprung
It takes folks in
It's catching
Jailbird
Kind of cookie
Kind of door
Kisser
Light two-wheeled carriage
Like a brainiac
Like a whip?
Like crossword solvers, n
Like some bombs
Like some moves
Like some wine drunk by crook helping holy work
Links hazard
Little attention seekers in hotel with things available at reception
Lobster pot
Many an e-mail "click her
Meat cost regularly on reflection is a swindle
Mensa-eligible
Monkey scratching bottom sees rook
Mouse catcher
Mouth of river feeding water supply
Mouth, in slang
Mouth, slangily
Nattily dressed
Natty
Non-English clubs backed racket
Nonpro?
Normal time to retire with gin?
Offer that's too good to
On the ball
One found in a pen
One in a pen
One kept in the cooler
One may take you in
One reported to the Bette
One should avoid falling into one of these
One side of an issue
Opposing
Party animal, female, has male chained up?
Pen filler
Permission to leave last of the porridge
Persuade by trickery
Piehole
Pipe section
Pitfall
Police operation
Police setup
Police sting
Police sting, e.g.
Pony carriage
Ponzi scheme, e.g.
Prisoner
Prisoner's trick
Pro's opposite
Public transport's turnaround is quick and efficient
Pull a con
Pyramid scheme
Pyramid scheme, e.g.
Return of public transport turned out well
Revolutionary rainproof clothing racket
Rip off bits of clothing aggressively during kinky sex
Rip off raincoats to throw back
Rip-off
Ripoff
Rogue hiding piano in trick
Rotating component plumber's fitting under the sink
Run a game on
Ruse
Sales campaign includes dishonest scheme
Sand bar
Scam
Set up
Sharp stinging pain
Shell game
Sing Sing inhabitant
Sink pipe part
Skeet device
Small computer over a fast one
Snare
Snare: section springing back
Snare; light carriage
Some characters in Tristram Shandy are flipping clever!
Some computers returned in dodgy scheme
Source of water around river mouth
Specialty of some artists
Spider web, e.g.
Spring site
Start of a Tennessee Will
Start to take blame for ambush?
Sting and Summers essentially invested in small paintings
Sting operation
Sting's bondage sex with Garfunkel
Sting's opening for Simon & Garfunkel, maybe after millions
Sting's technologically advanced, witty and stylish
Sting, basically
Sting, of sorts
Sting; intelligent
Stylish
Stylish forms of transport going into reverse
Subterfuge
Swindle
Swindle as rascal, extracting last penny
Swindle quiet one out of seafood
Swindle rascal detailed
Swindle, fraud
Take for a ride
Take in
Tense discussion revealing pitfall
Time server
Tory do
Trick
Trick created by cheeky fellow (the penny’s dropped!)
Trickery from monkey scratching rear
Trim
Turn computers into a dishonest business
U-shaped pipe component backed up
Upper-class?
Vagrant’s lost millions in trick
Voting "nay"
Wearing best suit maybe, but hurt
Well turned out 1D's bottom raised
Well turned-out NCO's skill
Well-kept small trading centre
Whiplike?
Word that can follow the
Word with sand or speed
Word with speed or fire
Yardbird
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