Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Artifice and Guile in Confidence Games
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. One who assumes a false identity with deceptive intent
- 2. An elaborate guise designed to mislead or entertain
- 4. Deceptive strategy to conceal true motives
- 6. Puzzling dilemma often exploited by clever deceivers
Down
- 3. Fluent persuasion technique often used by con artists
- 5. A mountebank peddling spurious expertise or cures
- 7. Act of misleading by falsehood or trickery