Swindle - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 13/03/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Swindle.

4 letter answer(s) to swindle

BILK
  1. cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
  2. escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
  3. evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors"
  4. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
DOIN
RAMP
  1. a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
  2. an inclined surface connecting two levels
  3. be rampant; "the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction"
  4. behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
  5. creep up -- used especially of plants; "The roses ramped over the wall"
  6. furnish with a ramp; "The ramped auditorium"
  7. North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
  8. stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
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"

5 letter answer(s) to swindle

BUNKO
  1. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
CHEAT
  1. a deception for profit to yourself
  2. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
  3. defeat someone through trickery or deceit
  4. deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
  5. engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"
  6. someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
  7. the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
  8. weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
  9. weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
COZEN
  1. act with artful deceit
  2. be false to; be dishonest with
  3. cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"
EPSOM
  1. Town in Surrey famous for horseracing derby and Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate)
MULCT
  1. 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"
  2. impose a fine on; "he was fined for littering"
  3. money extracted as a penalty

6 letter answer(s) to swindle

CHISEL
  1. an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
  2. carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"
  3. deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
  4. engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"
CONJOB
EUCHRE
  1. a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
FLEECE
  1. a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing
  2. outer coat of especially sheep and yaks
  3. rip off; ask an unreasonable price
  4. shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
  5. tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing
  6. the wool of a sheep or similar animal
RIPOFF

3 letter answer(s) to swindle

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"
GYP
  1. a college servant at Cambridge and Durham
  2. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
  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"
ROB
  1. Plundered
  2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price
  3. take something away by force or without the consent of the owner; "The burglars robbed him of all his money"

7 letter answer(s) to swindle

CONGAME
DEFRAUD
  1. 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"
  2. swindle
RIP-OFF
  1. the act of stealing

11 letter answer(s) to swindle

DOUBLECROSS
  1. cheat, turn tables on

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Swindle'

"Whatcha ___?"
"___ What Comes Natur'lly
*Act of betrayal
16 down by tearaway
16 down's jumper, reportedly extremely cute
16 down's small flower
A garment to take to the cleaners?
Act duplicitously when selling coat
Against clubs playing?
Airplane exit
Airport feature
Almost committing murder
Alternative to stairs
Alternative to steps
Anti body?
Argument against
Attack and steal from boy
Attending church, take off warm garment
Bamboozle
Being heartless, get away with trick
Bernie Madoff's hedge fun
Betray
Betrayal
Bilk, say
Blatant imitation
Break the rules
Brood raised outside south Surrey town
Bump off
Bunko game
Burglarize
Burgle
Car ferry need
Card game
Card game with best, right and left bowers
Carpentry tool
Carpentry tool from church lies abandoned
Carve letters in Greek and English one spelled out
Cell sojourner
Charge exorbitantly for a warm woollen coat
Cheat
Cheat one out of some money
Cheat's making cut, under par
Cheat, deceive
Cheat, slangily
Chief put away person who has had one
Chile's flexible tool
Chiseler
Church aisle reshaped without a woodworking tool
Classic location with English rider on order
Classic venue where doctor’s exercising back
Clear the register, maybe
Coat to take to the cleaners
Con
Con artist's art
Con game
Con job
Con man
Confidence game
Contrivance for taking pe
Course of electrotherapy probably surpasses other medication initially
Cozenage
Crimestopper gets pressure from police rule-breaker
Curtailed rascal’s swindle
Cut and slice bananas round tip of branch
Cutting tool
Dance with me for some hanky-panky?
Daylight robbery
Deal from the bottom
Debate side
Deceive
Deceive; disadvantage
Deception
Deception; disadvantage
Defraud
Derby locale
Derby place
Derby racecourse
Derby Stakes site
Derby town
Derby venue
Diddle
Dishonest competitor caught ahead of race
Dishonest scheme
Do back up computers
Do children worry?
Do computers up
Do run to church
Do some tremendous campaigning
Do study
Do the acrosses
Dodge 22, briefly
Downs spot
Drive up price of sheep dip finally
E-mail from a Nigerian pr
E-mail offer of $17,000,0
England's ___ Downs
English Derby site
English race site
English racing town
English regret getting upset about chief American card game
English town next to Bans
Ensnaring scheme
Entrance to an expressway
European taking Englishman around second English town
Expressway access
Extract money
Extract money by deceit
Extract money from (someone) by fine or taxation
Fast one
Fast shuffle, so to speak
Feel glum about securing second place for racing
Fiddle about during kinky sex
Fiddle with computers the wrong way
Fine chimney in Glasgow backs onto court
Fine Greek character left court
Finish a mugging
Finish off
Fleece
Fleece coats from down under
Fleece coats from the south
Fleece coats returned
Fleece is beginning to conserve warmth
Fleece overcoats?
Flimflam
Fraud
Fraud involving computers being recalled
Fraud squad's head about to get married
Fraud when computers backed up
Fraudulent operation
Fraudulent scheme
Freeway access
Freeway exit
Frequent means of entry
Fret about Square being turned over in Surrey town
Fudge
Game in which each player
Game with right and left
Garage feature
Goal of phishing
Gone after final wish for something that's far too expensive
Government department used banks for swindle
Grifter's ploy
Gull
Hand tool
Head of company working a swindle
Heads of Swiss company ably manufacturing fiddle
Highway access
Highway entrance
Highway exit
Hoax
Hold up
Hoodwink
Hornswoggle
Hose
Hustle
I.R.S. target
Ice
Inclination to put butter on starter of pancakes
Incline
Incline to batter front of portcullis
Incline to drive quietly
Inclined path for wheelch
Inclined walkway
Increase quickly, with "u
Interstate entrance or ex
Interstate entrance/exit
Interstate exit
It grows on ewe
It may be played on a mar
It takes folks in
It's painful parking after fitness centre closes early
Jailbird
Kill
Kind of salts
Knock off
Knock over
Knock over, so to speak
Lamb's coat
Lamb's cover
Laura's 1960s sitcom hubb
Laura's husband in 60's T
Like some wine drunk by crook helping holy work
Loot
Man eaten by pet shark
Many an e-mail "click her
Maybe sharper children worry
Meat cost regularly on reflection is a swindle
Monkey scratching bottom sees rook
Mopes about in Surrey
Mopes about the place, having the downs
Mug
Multistory parking garage
Murder
Non-English clubs backed racket
Nonpro?
Not play fair
Not working after rent swindle
Oaks Stakes setting
Off
Offer that's too good to
Old salts
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 side of an issue
One's inclined to associate politician with troops
One's inclined to strike with Popular Front
Opposing
Page in some novel set in town, of course
Part of a loading zone, m
Party animal, female, has male chained up?
Paul's online flimflam
Pen filler
Permission to leave last of the porridge
Persuade by trickery
Pilfer
Plane that's inclined to get hit, given minimum of protection
Play badly?
Plunder
Ponzi scheme, e.g.
Prisoner
Prisoner's trick
Pro's opposite
Prompt to back her playing game (the first of many here)
Pull a con
Put away
Pyramid scheme
Pyramid scheme, e.g.
Racecourse
Racecourse poems adapted
Racecourse record some cannot complete
Racecourse record thus misrepresented at first
Racecourse some keep so meticulously
Record a certain amount but not all 6
Record a few short races here
Record thus maintained primarily in racecourse
Resistance with some current inclination
Resistance/current gradient?
Revolutionary rainproof clothing racket
Revolutionary upmarket housing swindle
Right for the disabled
Rip off
Rip off Billy or Jacob's coat
Rip off bits of clothing aggressively during kinky sex
Rip off coat
Rip off raincoats to throw back
Rip-off
Ripoff
Rob's cut and run before church
Rod recalled that man pocketing Queen in card game
Rogue hiding piano in trick
Rook
Ruin
Run a game on
Run from church in warm coat
Run from Conservative European swindle
Run! Carnivore's outside in sheep's clothing
Ruse
Sack
Sales campaign includes dishonest scheme
Scam
Scam ... or an apt title
Scam involving rent not on
Scott's "___ Roy"
Screw as a boy, perhaps eaten by lion?
Screw: one's sheared off
Sculpt
Sculptor's tool
Shearer after this cheat
Sheep's coat
Sheep's coat of wool
Shell game
Sing Sing inhabitant
Slope between levels
Slope connecting two levels
Sloping surface
Sloping walkway
Small computer over a fast one
Some computers returned in dodgy scheme
Specialty of some artists
Split over leaving do
Stab
Staple Le Carr
Start of a Tennessee Will
Steal from
Steal from Sherwood inhabitant who’s not at home
Steal short dress
Stick up
Sting
Storm caused by parking on drive
Streep: someone's heart races
Surrey race course
Surrey racecourse
Surrey town in memo spelt the wrong way
Surrey town records acknowledgement of merit
Swahili honorific
Swindle as rascal, extracting last penny
Swindle going unchecked puts worker perhaps off
Swindle quiet one out of seafood
Swindle rascal detailed
Swindle, fraud
Swindler's work
Take 5, clue 5
Take ferry both ways, say, to do some selling down the river
Take for a ride
Take from
Take in
Take property from
Take something without the owner's consent
Take the wrong way?
Take to the cleaners
Talk about energy fraud
Terrible fear in turkey, seeing gull
Thieve
Thoroughly weary butcher
Three-year-olds compete h
Time server
Tool
Tool – cheat
Tool found in workbench is electric
Tool in bench is electric
Tool with a flat cutting edge
Top general introduced to head of free church
Tory do
Treat, trick
Trick
Trick created by cheeky fellow (the penny’s dropped!)
Trick-taking card game
Trick-taking game
Trickery from monkey scratching rear
Tuppence divided up in bank
Turn computers into a dishonest business
Turnpike access
Turnpike turnoff
Two-time
Two-timer caught by US police
Uphill standard must accommodate motorway slope
Use a tool and slice hot bananas
Use crib notes
Van adjunct
Very overpriced article
Voting "nay"
Warm garment to take to the cleaners
Water-skier's apparatus
Way off
Way off the highway
Way on or off a highway
Way up
Way up or down
Welsh rabbit with bit of Edam in it
Wheelchair access
Wheelchair access?
Wheelchair-accessible rou
Wheeled carriage beginning to move when this is provided?
Wood worker
Woolly coat
Yardbird
___ blind
___ Downs
___ salts

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