Answer: HOAX
HOAX is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted over 20 times. There are related answers (shown below). Try defining HOAX with Google.
Referring crossword puzzle clues
- Swindle
- Put on
- Con
- Con game
- Trick
- Fake
- Stratagem
- Prank
- Dupe
- Hoodwink
- Sham
- Bamboozle
- Deception
- Fraud
- Practical joke
- Flimflam
- Scam
- Ruse
- Put one over on
- Hornswoggle
- Spoof
- Put-on
- Fast one
- Imposture
- Canard
- Elaborate ruse
- Deceptive act
- Snow job
- Piltdown man, e.g.
- Major prank
- Fraudulence
- Elaborate deception
- False claim
- Deceptive trick
- Piltdown man, for one
- Mare's-nest
- Elaborate fraud
- The Piltdown Man, notably
- The Piltdown Man, e.g.
- Martian invasion report, e.g.
- Mare's nest
- It's not for real
- It's a trick
- Deceitful device
- Welles' Martian invasion broadcast, e.g.
- UFO photo, perhaps
- Spam content, often
- Something intended to deceive
- Snopes.com subject
- Scam or sham
- Robin Davey band The ___
- Piltdown man, say
- Many an urban legend
- Like a famous Welles radio broadcast
- Good thing to check Snopes.com for
- Fraudulent event
- Fake story that might be discredited by Snopes.com
- Elaborate prank
- Elaborate lie
- Dupery
- Debunker's target
- Debunked thing
- Con man's trick
- Bamboozlement
- Attempted deception
- April 1st antic
- April 1 event
- What an unbelievable YouTube video might be
- Welles's "The War of the Worlds," e.g.
- Welles' 'War of the Worlds,' e.g.
- Trickster's deception
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, e.g.
- The performances of Milli Vanilli, essentially
- The Hitler Diaries, e.g.
- The finding of a Virgin Mary-shaped gummy candy, e.g.
- The Cardiff Giant, notably
- The Cardiff Giant, for one
- The 1938 broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" was one
- Target for a debunker
- Subject of a forwarded e-mail, often
- Sting, for instance
- Snopes subject
- Sham or scam
- Scam that might be debunked by snopes.com
- Relative of fake news
- Publicity stunt, perhaps
- Public prank
- Prankster's scam
- Prankster's project
- Practical joke, e.g.
- Piltdown man, notably
- Phony discovery, perhaps
- No mere prank
- Milli Vanilli, famously
- Mencken's history of the bathtub, e.g.
- Many an April 1 "news" item
- Many a P.T. Barnum exhibit
- Many a cryptid sighting, e.g.
- Manti Te'o's girlfriend, for one
- Major deception
- Like many a catfish relationship
- Kurt Vonnegut's faux commencement address e-mail, e.g.
- It's phony-baloney
- It's perpetrated by a prankster
- It can be spread by a doctored photograph
- Hitler's diaries, e.g.
- Global warming, some say
- Fake, such as Piltdown Man
- Facebook privacy announcement, e.g.
- Elaborate falsehood
- Elaborate fake
- Elaborate April fool
- Dupe's downfall
- Deceptive deed
- Deception such as the Piltdown Man
- Crop circles, for one
- Crop circles, e.g.
- Cottingley Fairies, for one
- Chain letters, usually
- Bigfoot photo, e.g.
- Big scam
- Barnum's Fiji mermaid, for one
- Barnum's "Feejee Mermaid," e.g.
- April Fools' Day news story, sometimes
- April 1st event
- April 1 trick
- April 1 news story, maybe
- 1938 "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, for one
- 1869's Cardiff Giant, e.g.
- "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, notably
- "Balloon Boy," for one
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