Cheat, informally Crossword Clue

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Cheat, informally Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
2. (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
(verb)
1. deprive of by deceit

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

CHEAT (noun)
1. weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
2. weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
CHEAT (verb)
1. engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
2. deprive somebody of something by deceit
INFORMALLY (adverb)
1. with the use of colloquial expressions

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18. Practices on the court

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22. "___-high by the Fourth of July" (corn farmer's adage)

23. Uh-uh

24. Isolated

26. Deep cut

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29. Shows exasperation, in a way

31. Two-cent pieces?

33. Burden

34. Mega Man console, informally

35. Comedian Costello

36. Pollen producer on a flower

38. Time off, perhaps?

41. Where someone might keep a tab on you?

42. Make "it"

43. Those in charge: Abbr.

45. Assail

48. Bewilder

50. One serving a queen, perhaps

51. Spicy cuisine

53. Little squirt

54. Certain bra spec

56. Sound from Peppa of kids' TV

58. Part of Q.E.D

59. Props for one's performance

62. Nonhuman source of spam

64. Like a premium plan for an account user, maybe

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67. Annoy

68. Takes from

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7. Mooches

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9. Speech fillers

10. Nobel Prize category, for short

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12. Cut off

13. Map miniatures

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21. Freaks out

24. Sign of a packed house

25. Brightest star in Cygnus

27. Eerie forest sound

30. Kyoto cash

32. Root on

35. Some unpleasant things to step on with bare feet

37. Many a rescue dog

38. Shock

39. "So cute!"

40. Caves

42. What something a magician holds might disappear into

44. One with secrets

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46. Make hard to read in a way

47. Packs

48. Common serving of lobster

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52. Optimist

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57. Bit of praise, humorously

60. English letter that looks like the Greek rho

61. Cry, cry, cry

63. Start to fall, say

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