Answer: FAKE
FAKE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 58 times.
Referring Clues:
- Like some furs
- Mountebank
- Faux
- Counterfeit
- False move
- Sham
- Deceptive play
- Like a flea-market Gucci, probably
- Impostor
- Simulate
- Play possum or cry wolf
- Quack
- Imitation
- Phony
- Gridiron move
- Ersatz
- Knockoff
- Feign
- Charlatan
- Bogus
- Cry wolf or play possum
- Not the real McCoy
- Embarrassment for a curator
- Pretend
- With 24-Across, bluff
- What some consider the 38-Across to be
- Pretend shot
- Handoff that isn't
- Superficial
- Museum embarrassment
- Certain "Antiques Roadshow" discovery
- Forgery
- Pseudo
- Like some lashes and tans
- Like knockoff goods
- Not genuine
- Clifford Irving's "Autobiography of Howard Hughes," e.g.
- Not real
- Art expert's discovery
- With 66-Across, what might prompt an exclamation of disbelief
- Hoops move
- Not bona fide
- Improvise, in jazz
- Word before news or fur
- Bona fide? No
- Like many Rolex watches sold on the street
- Embarrassment for an art curator
- Like an orange tan, say
- Art buyer's concern
- The Piltdown Man, notably
- Like C.G.I.
- Fraudulent
- Like bot accounts on social media
- Kind of fur
- Expert's discovery
- Like some plants that don't need watering
- Art world fraud
- Like a flea market Rolex, probably
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 03, 2025
- LA Times - June 08, 2025
- USA Today - February 18, 2025
- USA Today - April 23, 2024
- LA Times - March 05, 2024
- LA Times - March 04, 2024
- New York Times - May 30, 2023
- New York Times - March 01, 2023
- LA Times - November 28, 2022
- LA Times - May 26, 2022
- New York Times - November 12, 2021
- New York Times - May 24, 2021
- LA Times - March 14, 2021
- New York Times - December 11, 2020
- LA Times - September 13, 2020
- Universal - July 21, 2020
- Universal - May 27, 2020
- New York Times - January 04, 2020
- LA Times - November 19, 2019
- LA Times - September 28, 2019
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